What would you do?

[charliesbutterfly]

Everyone seems to be taking this out of the context in which I meant. I meant if you were alive at the same time as Jesus was born, and lived as contemporaries with him and the apostles what do you think your response would do!

I gotcha Is.6:8...that's why I said drop everything and follow Him without a thought.

[nebula]

I understood what you were asking, Isaiah - so my answer still stands at "I don't know" considering my problem with spontaneous changes.

But then again, back then women were not called to discipleship, so that kind-of takes me out of the picture anyway.

But I would hope to have been among the women who followed Jesus and helped take care of His and the disciples needs.

[nebula]

One thing I believe everyone should consider -

It is easy for us to regard the question with hindsight.

But consider where you are now and all your plans and all you have. Would it be easy for you to drop it all and do something else?

I recall the struggle one man had when he heard the Lord telling him to not marry the young woman he was engaged to.

I recall the testimony of another young man working on his career plans when he sensed the Lord telling him that the Lord had made him to preach the Gospel to the unreached peoples. Dropping his plans and pursuing the Lord's calling was not a 2-second decision, if you know what I mean.

Try to consider the question in this light.

[ladypeartree]

We may not have had the chance to physically touch our Lord but we do have the 2 thousand years of faith and example to learn from so yes ... hindsight is wonderful

[charliesbutterfly]

One thing I believe everyone should consider -

It is easy for us to regard the question with hindsight.

But consider where you are now and all your plans and all you have. Would it be easy for you to drop it all and do something else?

I recall the struggle one man had when he heard the Lord telling him to not marry the young woman he was engaged to.

I recall the testimony of another young man working on his career plans when he sensed the Lord telling him that the Lord had made him to preach the Gospel to the unreached peoples. Dropping his plans and pursuing the Lord's calling was not a 2-second decision, if you know what I mean.

Try to consider the question in this light.

I have done it...several times. Life was going great for me, I was thoroughly enjoying my teaching career and gaining the things I wanted out of life...including my dream car and living in my dream city when the call to go to the mission field interrupted it all. The first time admittedly took prayer and some confirmations but nevertheless I did it and the subsequent times after that were easy. It got to the point of "where Lord" when I heard the call.

The fact that I needed prayer and confirmation the first time does question dropping everything immediately when He calls but times after that were immediate. So I guess my answer to your question could be yes.

[Rick-Parker]

Everyone seems to be taking this out of the context in which I meant. I meant if you were alive at the same time as Jesus was born, and lived as contemporaries with him and the apostles what do you think your response would do!

I would go as I would be predestined to. I would have free will to choose, but God already knows how I would choose. If I chose not to go, God would never have Christ ask. He would have gone to some one else whom God knew would say yes and I would have never had the opportunity to go. I know that is more than you asked for, I just felt the need to explain my position.

[nebula]

If I chose not to go, God would never have Christ ask. He would have gone to some one else whom God knew would say yes and I would have never had the opportunity to go.

Tell that to the rich young ruler.

[Guest man]

If I chose not to go, God would never have Christ ask. He would have gone to some one else whom God knew would say yes and I would have never had the opportunity to go.

Tell that to the rich young ruler.

And don't forget Judas. He answered the call and we all know how that played out.

And than there's the Parable of the Wedding Feast.

And than there's...........

Matthew 22

14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

[Rick-Parker]

If I chose not to go, God would never have Christ ask. He would have gone to some one else whom God knew would say yes and I would have never had the opportunity to go.

Tell that to the rich young ruler.

Luke 18:18-23 A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good -- except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'" "All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said. When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.

Seems the rich young ruler approached Jesus first. The reason this story is included in scripture was to teach a principle, not to recruit disciples. So, it's not really the same thing.

[Rick-Parker]

If I chose not to go, God would never have Christ ask. He would have gone to some one else whom God knew would say yes and I would have never had the opportunity to go.

Tell that to the rich young ruler.

And don't forget Judas. He answered the call and we all know how that played out.

And than there's the Parable of the Wedding Feast.

And than there's...........

Matthew 22

14