In the first two chapters of The Gospel According to Mark, the word “immediately” is used eight times, to describe eight different events. When John had baptized Jesus, he went to the wilderness immediately. The disciples He called went with Him immediately. Illness, demons, they fled immediately.

Yes, Jesus leads us on a faith journey to The Father, a lifelong process where we “become” fishers of men (Mark 1:17) and we “learn” from Him (Matt 11:29). But when He calls us, He calls us NOW. Our Father and His son Jesus Christ exist in eternity, where all is always present. They call us to our now.

Perhaps I’ve noted it before, but when Moses told Pharaoh he would ask God to remove the infestation of frogs in exchange for letting God’s people go, he’d initially agreed. Pharaoh’s kingdom was in disarray, consumed by this horrible infestation, imagine it! Frogs everywhere you stepped. In what you ate, your clean water, everywhere. But, when Moses asked Pharaoh when he’d like for the frogs to go away, Pharaoh opted for “tomorrow”.

We can acknowledge this as nuts; if you have a problem now, solve for it now if you can, right? But if we’re honest, we do the same. “Tomorrow, I’ll: ____.” Our blanks all look different. Some inconsequential…some very much so. Learning from Christ, pursuing His heart and faithfully pursuing Him in our journey is a life-long process. But that process, if we let it…it starts NOW.

What’s your frog?