"Follow me." --- Luke 5:27. "And endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." --- 2 Timothy 2:3.
Would you follow Christ? Then follow him in self-denial, in humility, in patience, and in readiness for every good work. Follow him with a daily cross upon your back, and look to his cross to make your burden light. Follow him as your guide and guard, and learn to see with his eyes, and to trust in his arm for defence. Follow him as the Friend of sinners, who healeth the broken in heart, and giveth rest to weary souls, and casteh out none that come to him.
Follow him with faith, resting your whole acceptance with God, and your title to heaven, on his meritorious blood and righteousness. Lastly, follow him with much prayer. For, though, he is full of compasion, he loves to be much entreated, and when he is determined to give a blessing, you must yet wrestle with him for it. Thus follow Jesus, and he will lead you to glory.
My dearest Saviour and my guide,
I would be walking at thy side;
O let me never run astray,
Nor follow the forbidden way.