Like Teacher, Like Disciple

ALL – Psalm 42:1-11
ALL – Proverbs 10:17
OT – Leviticus 19:1-20:21
NT – Mark 8:11-38

If you want to be a marine biologist, you don’t major in English. If you want to be an anthropologist, you don’t major in math. Students go where their chosen teachers lead.

Jesus knew where He was going, and He shared openly with His disciples what His journey would be:

Then he began to tell them about the terrible things he would suffer, and that he would be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the other Jewish leaders—and be killed, and that he would rise again three days afterwards. – Mark 8:31, The Living Bible

But Jesus’ journey wasn’t His alone. Since Jesus was the Teacher-Master, it was a journey for all His disciples, His followers, His students:

Then he called his disciples and the crowds to come over and listen, “If any of you wants to be my follower,” he told them, “you must put aside your own pleasures and shoulder your cross, and follow me closely. If you insist on saving your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live. – Mark 8:34-35, The Living Bible

Jesus’ journey included suffering and death; the disciples would follow in His steps. Jesus’ journey included a resurrection; the disciples, too, would gain life as they followed Jesus. Students go where their teachers lead, and Jesus has led the way through death to eternal life in the New Heavens and the New Earth that He’s preparing for His disciples even now. Not only has He led the way; He is the Way. No disciple can walk that road without the provision of His life, His blood and death, His resurrection, His Spirit.

Students go where their chosen teachers lead. Have you chosen to accept Jesus’ call?

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