Come Follow Me

When everything is going perfectly,
Come Follow Me

When you’ve attained the heights this world has to offer, leave all behind and
Come Follow Me

When all else has failed you,
Come Follow Me

When I have revealed something to you that no one else can see,
Come Follow Me

Though hand join hand against Me and My ways,
Come Follow Me

Though every voice you hear rises against My word,
Come Follow Me

When things don’t make sense in the natural,
Come Follow Me

When it feels like I have forsaken you,
Come Follow Me

When it feels like I’m not listening,
Come Follow Me

When it feels as if there is no answer to your dilemma,
Come Follow Me

When your flesh is in agony,
Come Follow Me

When each and every voice around you says that you are a fool,
Come Follow Me

When those you love are sitting on the side lines, refusing to join the race,
Come Follow Me

Let the dead bury their own dead,
Come Follow Me

When the road to bliss looks so enticing,
Come Follow Me

Don’t take one branch or even a leaf with you, just
Come Follow Me

Keep walking,
Come Follow Me

Scriptural References:

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. Luke 18:22

Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” Matthew 8:21&22

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2 Corinthians 4:4

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Corinthians 9:24

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7&8

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1&2

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:13&14