Introduction ("Following Jesus")

Introduction

 

 

            “When we walk with the Lord In the light of His Word, What a glory He sheds on our way!  While we do His good will He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey.   Trust and obey, for there's no other way To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey” (Hymn “When We Walk With the Lord, v. 1).

 

                I want to follow Jesus.  I want to hear the voice of the Shepherd Jesus and follow Him only (Jn. 10:3-5).  Even though the way Jesus went is the way of the cross and the rough road of Golgotha, I want to deny myself and take up my cross and follow Jesus (Mt. 16:24; Mk. 8:34; Lk. 9:23).  I want to walk the narrow path that Jesus walked rather than the wide path of this world.  I want to walk by faith rather than by sight (2 Cor. 5:7).  And I want to walk that one path to the end by faith silently.  I don't want to lean left or right.  I don't want to go this way and that way and be hesitant.  I want to fix my eyes on Jesus (Heb. 12:2), who is the way, the truth, and the life (Jn. 14:6), and open my ears wide in order to listen to His voice and follow only the words of Jesus.  Even if I see no evidence in my eyes, I want to always walk by faith only.  I want to hold on to the word of promise that Jesus gave me and be driven by it and live obediently to His word.  “I will go forth when You say.  I will stop if it’s not Your will.  It depends on Your will, whether I will go or stop.  Oh Lord God, please lead me to Your way.  Where You want me to be, I want to be there with You.  I will obey Your command and will live as You lead me.  Even with my weak soul, may You work through me for the sake of the Lord’s Kingdom and His will.  Oh Lord God, please lead me to Your way.”

 

                The year 2013 motto for Victory Presbyterian Church, where I am serving by the grace of God, was “Following Jesus.”  I wanted all the church members to live a life of following Jesus more closely.  So I set the motto “Following Jesus” and meditated on the Gospel of Matthew for that year.  I selected some of those meditated verses and compiled a book under the title of “Following Jesus.”  Although this book lacks a lot, I want to share with the hope that it will be of some help to the brothers and sisters in Christ who want to follow Jesus.

 

 

 

 

Struggling to follow Jesus,

 

 

James Kim

(June 2018, in Victory Shepherd's Room)