Something Very Impressive About Jesus

Matthew 4:12-17

There must have been something very impressive about Jesus for the disciples to act so rapidly in deciding to follow him.

We don't get swept up that quickly by just an ordinary run-of-the-mill person.There was something special about Jesus "some indefinable quality that set him apart!

It's like a story Dudley Moore tells about the late king of rock-and-roll Elvis Presley. In 1956 Presley recorded seventeen titles that made the charts, including five number ones. So phenomenal was the impact he had on the music world that song writers would do almost anything to get him to record one of their numbers.

Two songwriters, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, had a rather trite and obscure composition which they called, "Hound Dog." Interestingly, Mike Stoller was one of the fortunate survivors from the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria. Landing back in New York after the ordeal, he found his colleague, Jerry Leiber, waiting on the dockside to greet him. But Leiber's mind was on more pressing matters than his friend's lucky escape from the clutches of the deep. Leiber's first words to Stoller were, "Elvis Presley's recorded Hound Dog! Elvis Pressley's recorded Hound Dog!" I guess people get excited about different things.

Those four fishermen "Simon, Andrew, James and John "got excited when they met Jesus. They left their families, they left their jobs, they left everything important to them for an uncertain future as his disciples. There must have been something very special about Jesus and I think there was!

Questions to Ponder

• What excites you?

• Do you think there was something very impressive about Jesus?

• Does He excite you ?

• What are you willing to give up for Him?

In His Service,
Terry Phillips