He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
(Mark 8.34 NRSV)
A family once had two little puppies. One of the puppies was a boy and the other was a girl...and for some strange reason wherever the sister went, the brother was on her tail following right behind her. Every morning, as they were let out to play, they would go scampering out the door, down the steps, across the lawn and through a hole in the fence--and always, the brother was following right behind his sister.

One day, the family decided to fix that hole in the fence, and the next morning, they let the dogs out to play. As usual, the puppies went out the door, down the steps, across the lawn. As the lead dog approached the fence, she saw that the hole in the fence had been fixed and she quickly turned to the right to avoid hitting the fence. Her brother, however, was not so fortunate; he crashed right into the fence. Later, the family discovered why: he was blind--the puppy had been blind since birth. He had simply learned that to get around he had to listen, listen to the sounds of his sister's footsteps, listen to where his sister was going and follow her.

We need to follow Christ with that kind of intensity.

Dear God, I will follow. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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