Stop. Take a deep breath and slow down. Think about the way you are living right now. The past week. The past year. The past twenty years. Choose a word to describe the way youve been living.
You hold the universe
You hold everyone on earth
You hold the universe
You hold
You hold
All I need is You
All I need is You Lord
Is You Lord
This is part of a song Im listening to right now. It just moves me to worship our Lord. And im thinking about the lyrics. Like what do we sing? Do we really believe them? And if we believe them then should we not be living them? Everyone reading this will have said quickly yes i believe them. But really stop and think about it. What are you living for? Is your life showing Christ?
Remember earlier when I had you choose a word? What word was that? Was it Christ? Was it holiness? Was it faith? Was it love? Why are our lives not representing Christ? Even in that question i see how I am not living for Christ! I constantly refer to it as my life, yet I know it is not. I have died and now I live for Christ! I think im still trying to grasp that idea. I know it with my mind, but do i know it with my soul?
Everyone asks eachother what they want to do with their lives. Even among beleivers i see this happening. And i always think that is a stupid question. We should be asking what Christ is guiding us to do with His life. Do we really beleive that we are servants, or slaves of Christ?!
Your life has been bought at a high price, and now you are a slave of Christ Jesus! We need to start acting like it! I hear so many people talking about their faith as if God was this far distant idea and how we are living for him by simply living morally. And I am completely apalled at this notion! When did he say follow me by livingmorally, but really you can go with whatever your heart says and then do whatever you want?! When did he say 'just follow your hearts desires'??
Christ called us to give up our lives, and follow him! As i think back to those lyrics I have to ask myself whether my life shows that Christ is the only thing i need? When it comes down to giving up everything what do i withhold? Do i still think that my possessions really belong to me? Or do i understand they are only in my care by the Grace of God?
What do you need apart from the Lord? If everything was taken away from you would you still seek to glorify God? What about with what you want to do in life? Is this what you wanted to do, or what God wants you to do? Sure you can glorify God in all things, but are you trying to serve God the way you want to or the way he wants you to?
Do you think that we will be saved? Christ says that if we hold onto our life then we will lose it! Have you given up your life for Christ?! Is your life so obviously proclaiming Christ!? Does your life look stupid to this world because you are giving up everything for him?
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