“They left the boat and their father and followed him” (matthew 4:22). Something about the comfort and safety of the boat makes it hard to leave. “God said to Noah come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives” (Genesis 8:15,16).The boat represents old habits, securities and ways of doing things. Peter had fished for years, Noah had floated for months. Now it was time to leave the place of family refuge and follow the will of God.Such a step brought fear and thoughts of the unknown. What would it be like for peter to wake up each day and follow Jesus instead of his father? what would it be like outside the ark? Noah sent the dove again but this time it did not return to him Genesis 8:12. That little dove had no desire to return to its former security.

Once you have tasted of a new world, a world of ministry, you will have no desire to return to the mundane routine of life.

Leave the boat, my friends, A new world awaits you.

Remember: If you want to follow Jesus you have to left many things behind, God will made a way of escape as he did for Lot and his family before the destruction of Sodom.