Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him. Mark 1:18
"WHEN they
heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at
once without demur.
If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice
what we hear upon the spot, ....He will not lose his loaf who has taken care at
once to eat it.
Most readers and hearers become
moved so far as to purpose to amend; but, alas! the proposal is a
blossom which has not been knit, and therefore no fruit comes of it;
--they wait, they waver,
--and then they forget,
till, like the ponds in
nights of frost, when the sun shines by day, they are only thawed in
time to be frozen again.
That fatal to-morrow is blood-red with
the murder of fair resolutions; it is the slaughter-house of the
innocents.
Do not be caught in your own nets,
but break the meshes of
worldliness,
and away where glory calls you.
Grant it, O Lord, unto thy servant!"
Charles Spurgeon
