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The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me."

Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote - Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" asked Nathaniel.

"Come and see," said Philip. 

When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."

"How do you know me?" Nathaniel asked. 

Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."

Then Nathaniel declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."

Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that." He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

John 1:43-41

Yesterday, I wrote: THE MEANING OF LIFE IS TO FOLLOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

Here we see what following Jesus does to Philip. He does to others what Jesus did for him. He FINDS Nathaniel. The same thing Jesus did to him. Jesus FINDS Philip. But here is the critical thing to notice: He doesn't try to be the savior. He points Nathaniel to the Savior, Jesus. "Come and see" he says. Clearly, we see that Nathaniel has some major doubts about what his friend Philip has told him about Jesus. But Philip trusts that Jesus is big enough to answer his friend's doubts. Philip is so head over heels for Jesus that he believes that if Nathaniel just gets a glimpse of Jesus, he'll be changed forever. 

The point to remember when we are following Jesus. We are not becoming him. We become aligned with him - in order to come and see things the way he does and point others the same direction: to Him!