RE Verse reading–Mark 1:16-18; 8:27-33; 14:26-31, 66-72; 16:5-7 (Day Three)
“At once they left their nets and followed him.” What do you think you can’t live without? For Peter and the other fishermen who followed Jesus, it was the tools of their trade. But they left them behind when they actually began to pay attention to what Jesus was saying. When they paid attention to Jesus, they could hear God calling to them. Their jobs did not prevent, per se, their devotion to the Lord. But the way they gave themselves to their work certainly did. Paying attention to Jesus ended up requiring that they make major shifts in the way they structured their days in order to hear him more intently and more clearly. So they rearranged their lives. They learned what they could live without—and what they could not.
