Heaven Land Devotions - The Three Phase Following of Jesus Christ

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When Jesus first came to the first four fishermen one morning, He
stood on the seashore and said to them, "Follow Me." We read that
they "left their nets" and followed Him. Some time later we read
about Jesus standing on the seashore. Multitudes were pressing on
Him to hear the word. He entered into one of the two boats, and
sat down and preached from there. Afterwards, He told Peter to
let down his net and he would catch fish. They all let down their
nets and the catch was so great their nets broke, and their
vessels were sinking under the weight of the magnitude of fishes.
 


At that moment, the power of the Holy Spirit was mightily
present. Peter fell down at Jesus' knees and begged Jesus to
depart from him saying, "for I am a sinful man!" We see Jesus
revealing Himself to Peter as "Lord," and Peter seeing Himself as
filthy sinful man. I get the feeling what Peter was seeing and
experiencing was so powerful regarding his sinful state. I don't
think anyone could begin to put it in words. We might even get a
glimpse in a sense of what the Great White Throne Judgment will
be like in this moment.  


James and John were the other fishermen, whom after seeing what
happened, I seem to think had experienced the same powerful
presence of Jesus Christ too. How could they not?  Look what
it says, " For he [Peter] was astonished, and all that were with
him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:  And
so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they had brought their
ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him."  


This was now the second time they followed Jesus, but not because
He asked them to, but now they wanted to. Notice they did not
just leave their nets, now they did so of their own volition
"forsake all and follow Him." Later after Jesus death, burial and
resurrection, Jesus was seen by seven of His disciples standing
on the shore in the morning. They had fished all night and caught
nothing. 


But they heard Jesus tell them to do the same thing as last time,
and obeying Him, they now caught a major catch and the nets did
not break.  When they all got to shore, Jesus asked Peter if
he loved Him, and all three times Peter attested to the fact that
he did. Jesus then told Peter how he would later die in his old
age. Then afterwards He said for the third time, "Follow
Me." 


This is how I see our walk and following Christ in a threefold
phase of maturity. Jesus knows how to teach you to follow Him.
Following Him is never easy when it time goes on with Him. There
are many challenges. But He always knows how to reveal Himself to
those that keep on following Him and to mature them into great
fruit bearing trees unto His Father and ours for His namesake.
Those that do continue on will never be sorry. They will glory in
Him forever.


“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never
go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something
He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing
to you.” “The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart
upon the black horse of affliction.”  ~Charles Spurgeon