What it means to be a follower of Jesus

To be a follower of Jesus means more than following him around. There were many who did that only to turn aside later. To follow Jesus requires an internal transformation whereby you yield to him. Yieldedness means that if your will is one thing and his is another, you change in his favor.
The natural man does not do this. For those who have been given the Spirit of God, they must access his power to pull-off this internal change.