Who Are You Following?

We all follow something or someone. As independent or free as we feel, it just isn’t possible. Intrinsic to humanity is our dependent nature, our need for one another and our need to be led. This has always been true and will always be true. But now, because of the Gospel, we are finally able to see that there are really only two directions to go, towards life or death.

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins, in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once  lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)

Apart from Christ, we have no hope of doing anything other than following a path in death to death. We are bound to follow Satan’s path, the world’s path even the path established by the desires of our sinful nature.

If this were the end of the passage or the only truth the Bible shared, we might as well close it up and enjoy life as we know it. Thankfully it isn’t the end. In verse 4, Paul sets the contrast immediately, “But God.” Paul goes on (Ephesians 2:4-10) to reveal to us that as a result of God’s power, love, grace and mercy we have been united to Christ in life. He closes this passage with the revelation that this new life gives way to new works. To say it another way, this new life follows a new path; a path He has planned for us.

The call of Jesus on each of us who have been made alive is to turn from following Satan, the world, and our sinful nature in order to follow His plan and His purpose. He is the prize and following Him is the greatest priority.

We all follow something, every action, every decision, every pursuit of our life is moving in one of two directions under the leadership of drastically different leaders. The contrast is striking, to follow Christ is to turn towards Him and begin swimming upstream against the flow. Also, the destination is incomparable as incomparable as life and death.

What or who are you following?

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