‘And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19

Listening to comments of President Elect Trump, to me, is like listening to an unfiltered reality TV show. I am probably not alone in wincing when I have read the some of his purported comments, or worse still listened to them on the radio. But this is the wold that we are living in today, a world where either the loudest voice gets heard or the one with the most ‘followers’ or social media.

That word followers is apparently a new phenomenon. It means those people who follow your conversations or picture on social media. At the birth of platforms like Facebook it was how many friends you had that meant you had some sort of ‘virtual’ social status, but this was quickly overtaken with the amount of followers. The comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has 64.7 million followers on the social media platform Twitter. I thought that was a lot until I realised that she was a mere 8^th in the list behind Katy Perry (94.902,798), Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, Rihanna, YouTube and Lady Gaga. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of all or any of them, apart from the outgoing President of the USA the rest are popular music artistes between the ages of 20-40.

Various ‘movers and shakers’ have tried to grab the bragging right for coming up with the term followers, when in fact a certain Jesus Christ first said it in Matthew 4:19,

‘And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Who are you following?

Matthew Lombart sings ‘I will follow thee’. Click on the picture to listen.