Jesus invites everyone to follow Him. Being a sinner and having doubts are the prerequisites. That’s because we’re all sinners and we all have doubts.
Jesus is leading His followers to complete confidence in God that overcomes our fears but at times following Jesus can also be inconvenient, costly, and even embarrassing. It can cause us to miss opportunities, lose business, or stand out in the crowd when we’d rather fit in.
Even Jesus’ earliest followers wrestled with this tension. But one of his disciples asked a question, an ultimate question - that clarifies decisions for us and puts everything in perspective: “To whom shall I go?”