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"Come, follow me" Jesus said., "and I will send you out to fish for people". At once, they left their nets and followed him. - Matthew 4:19-20. What if Jesus asked me to give up my career? What would I say? What would I do? How would I explain it to my wife and family? Would I say no? The disciples here literally drop everything they know and are comfortable with at Jesus' offer. I have always been amazed by this. They were giving up their livelihoods, their means of sustenance, and what they had been doing from an early age to live a life of uncertainty. They were definitely leaving their comfort zones and safety nets to follow. I do not do well with uncertainty. I am an accountant. I like organization, schedules, plans, and consistency. I love being in my comfort zone. Don't dare get me out of it, I might go crazy. I am a person who needs things to go a certain way - a life of predictability. In a way, I believe we are all like that. We don't like...

Quite a provocative title there? Usually when talking about God, we tend to stress about inviting God to be a larger presence in our hearts. Here I am saying making God smaller. Am I saying that God is too big? No, not at all. (Actually He's so much more bigger than any of us can comprehend) What am I saying here? What I am saying and is something I am guilty of at times is only turning to God for the big events of my life or into situations that are beyond my expertise. Medical emergencies, earthly disasters, deaths of loved ones, needing my house to sell, changes in my career - these are situations that I have no problem placing at the throne of God. He can handle this, I cannot. I know this because I neither have the expertise or power to make a change to these situations. I readily express my inability to solve these issues. It's easy to turn these over to God. I am not saying that we shouldn't come to God in these scenarios. As a matter of fact, I would highly recom...