It’s not about the followers
Because quantity will never last;
It’s the quality of those involved
With a richness that is vast.
Many followers will not guarantee
That your work is validated,
Particularly when ears are tickled
Or where words are overstated.
When crowds followed Jesus
Initially they were thrilled,
To hear His meaningful message
Or when food their bellies filled.
But when conviction did take place
Many followers departed,
Because Jesus knew how to expose
The false motives and half-hearted.
The twelve disciples did remain
And turned the world upside down,
With a simple message of timeless truth
That turned many hearts around.
It’s not about the followers
Because naturally the crowds do sway –
To a message that is watered-down
Since the flesh likes it this way.
It’s the quality that will remain –
To make a difference too,
Where transformation after conviction
Presents a message that is true!
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4
“From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, ‘Do you also want to go away?’ But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’” John 6:66-68
“Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.” Matthew 7:13
“Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.” Matthew 7:24-25
“Then the disciples asked Him, saying ‘What does this parable mean?’ And He said, ‘To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’” Luke 8:9-10
“And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” Matthew 7:28-29
