September 12, 2010: Drop Outs – Michael Hidalgo

What was it about the call of Jesus that the disciples would simply pick up and leave everything? What would it take for you to leave home and walk around a dry dusty land with an itinerant Rabbi? It is interesting to note that the disciples are plying their trade. Some suggest this means they had completed their education, been tested, and had not “made the cut” with other rabbis. In other words – they were “good kids” but not the cream of the crop. 

Yet Jesus calls them. One of two rabbis in recorded history who called his disciples, instead of allowing disciples ask to follow him. This is the pattern we see throughout Scripture – God calling the underdog, the least, the lowly (Israel, Gideon, Mary) – and using them to accomplish his world.