WHAT SPECIFIC THINGS HAVE YOU LEFT BEHIND TO FOLLOW CHRIST?

We often assume that Jesus' disciples were great men of faith from the first time they met Jesus. But they had to grow in their faith just as all believers do. (This was apparently not only the time Jesus called Peter, James, and John to follow Him; see Luke 5:1-11 and John 1:35-42 for two other times.) Although it took time for Jesus' call and his message to get through, the disciples eventually followed. Levi (Matthew), however, followed immediately. Whether we question and falter or whether we willingly leave everything, we must never stop following Jesus.