Leave It

When Jesus called the disciples, it's amazing that through their faith, they knew that they should follow Him, and completely left their old lives behind them. It's very seldom in modern America that such commitment is seen. This doesn't mean that we should all "quit" our lives and pursue full-time ministry, but God should be first. Anything that gets in the way of that should be left behind.

Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,(NAS)

Luke 5:27-28
27 And after that He went out, and noticed a tax-gatherer named Levi, sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, "Follow Me."28 And he left everything behind, and rose and {began} to follow Him.(NAS)

Levi had a very lucrative business going on. As a tax collector, his only requirement was to collect what the Roman government requested and then collect however much more he wanted to on top of that for himself. It wasn't an honest business, though, and God had different plans for him. Better plans for him.