{"id":498,"date":"2007-12-21T06:27:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T15:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=498"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:34:17","slug":"follow-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/follow-closely\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow . . . Closely!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This last piece of Luke 22:54 seized my mind this morning:<\/p>\n

“And Peter followed afar off.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

To me, that illustrates an important spiritual lesson — To follow Jesus, I must be close to Him.<\/b><\/p>\n

Following Him from a long distance is no way to follow Him at all.<\/p>\n

So how did I do yesterday?<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though I eventually do things His way, I purposefully delay my obedience. “Afar off.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Sometimes, though I desire to live His way, I want to “just check out” another way before I obey Him. “Afar off.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Sometimes, though I sincerely strive to follow Him, I want to do it on my own terms. “Afar off.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Sometimes, though I know His way, I choose to do something contrary (for whatever reason). “Afar off.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Following Jesus afar off will lead to denying Jesus.<\/b> (How deeply do I believe that?)<\/p>\n

Let me have Peter’s repentant heart!<\/p>\n

And let me follow Jesus closely. This closely: “I walk with the King.”<\/p>\n

\"[And<\/a>
\nfrom Luke 22:61<\/i><\/em><\/div>\n
Reading:<\/p>\n

Luke 22:54-71<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

A little bit more from Luke 22:<\/b> Words of Doom<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only way to be a disciple of Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[96,44,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-live-right","9":"tag-obedience","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}