Reflections on Luke - Part 1

Our church is doing an epic sermon series on the book of Luke. We will be spending about 3 years going through Luke bit by bit. During the first sermon, Pastor Mark challenged us by saying that the average person can read through the book of Luke in 2 hours, which means that if you read for 15 minutes every day, you can read Luke once a week. He challenged us to read through Luke every week throughout the duration of the sermon series.

I sat down and figured out that I need to read 4 chapters a day to get through it every week. Normally, I don't like having to read that much Scripture in one sitting. I feel like I don't have time to process all the stuff that is in there. This is going to be an exercise in discipline for me, because I'm always wanting to stop in the middle and think about what I just read. But, if I'm going to be back at the same passage next week, and the week after, and the week after, I can continue to think about it for months.

And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
Luke 5:11 (esv)

I was really struck by this verse even though it seems a little obvious. The disciples took care of the business they had on hand before they left everything to follow Jesus. It seems so logical, but how many times do we jump out of the boat to follow Jesus? Sometimes God calls us to something, but also asks us to continue along the job that we have until the appointed time to move on to the next thing.