Treat it as if it were all going to disappear tomorrow. A lot of it will, you know, if not tomorrow then the day after that, or next month or next year. The world as we know it is passing away, and so let your life as you know it pass away as well. Those men got up and put down their nets and left everything and everyone behind. Not for any reason within them, mind you, and certainly not for selfish or even sinful reasons.
People get up and walk away from their lives all the time for selfish or sinful reasons.
That s not what we re talking about here. I wouldn t be surprised if you know what that power is. Or maybe that s why the Enemy - Satan in all his hatred for good, Satan who prowls about the world seeking the ruin of souls maybe it is Satan that keeps our lives so busy and so noisy and so filled with idle trivial distractions, and lures us to sins that put a veil over our eyes so that we can t even see that the nets we are holding in our hands are actually the very traps that will ensnare us so that we cannot move, cannot even hear the call, cannot repent, cannot do what the people of Nineveh did and save ourselves from the destruction that is already being wreaked upon our modern society in so many frightening and terrible ways. Where is our Jesus to deliver us from our sins and bring us the New Life and the Good News that He preaches along with the word repent . Well, He s right here.