Follow Jesus
Everyone follows something: friends, popular culture, family, selfish desires, or God. We can only follow one thing at a time as Jesus declared Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
wealth.” God states we are to have no other gods before Him (Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7; Mark 12:30). To truly follow Christ means we do not follow anything else; He has become everything to us. Jesus said in Luke 9:23, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” There is no such thing as a "halfway disciple." Following Jesus means striving to be like Him.