So once upon a time, these two brothers, James and John were in a boat, fixin' their fishing nets with their dad, and some strange dude walks by and says to the brothers, "Come follow me." And "immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him."
That just sounds weird. They left their father and their livelihood to follow a complete stranger. I mean, I wonder how their dad must have felt about that. 
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Unless...... what if their dad was the one who had taught them to be looking for a Messiah? These were Jewish people after all. So what if their whole lives had been spent on that boat listening to stories about the power of God and the hope of a coming Savior? What if their father was the one that had prepared them to answer that call when it came? What if their dad was fully ready to send them off to follow the Lord in body, bc he had already been following Him in Spirit?
Lord Jesus help me to follow you this closely. Help me to prepare my kids for your call on their lives. Help me to teach them to watch for you. Help me to hold them loosely, so that they will not hesitate to go when you call.
