Matthew 9: 9: "As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, 'Follow Me.' So he arose and followed Him." I have always been impressed with Matthew. Some other disciples, like Peter, were fishermen. They would leave their nets and follow Jesus. If it didn't work out, they could always go back to fishing. However, Matthew was turning his back on a very lucrative job that would replace him very quickly. He couldn't go back. For Matthew, being a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ was an all or nothing proposition. He was wholly devoted to the Lord. He would write the first book in our New Testament called "The Book of Matthew." When he was older, he would travel to Ethiopia. He would die a martyr there being impaled on a stake and beheaded. Matthew teaches us much about wholly following the Lord. We need to be prepared to lose everything for Him. We need to turn our backs on anything that would hold us back. "He is our all in all or He is nothing at all." Follow Him closely.
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