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Just a Thought: More of Jesus

February 25, 2018 0 comments

Posted in: Just a Thought

This week I came to the end of myself. Again!

You know that place? The place where you’re convinced that the more you insist on your own rights, the more frustrated you will be. The place where you realize that the more you pursue life for yourself, the further from Christ you will be. The place where you ultimately realize there must be more of Jesus and less of you.  Kinda what the banners in the sanctuary are saying.

We live in a world where biblical values are constantly under attack. We won’t change the world’s way of thinking any time soon, if at all. The question is - will the world change our way of thinking? So many of us have divided loyalties. We are pulled this way and that. We get confused - and then we begin to walk away from God. 

Our lives consist of wanting more of everything but God… more time, more money, more energy, more creativity, more discipline, more willpower, more motivation, more of what we think will make us happy – DON’T I DESERVE A LITTLE HAPPINESS? . More - more - more – more.  Yet the only thing we really need more of is Jesus and I definitely need less of me.  No! I don’t want to hear an Amen!  Are your desperate for Jesus?

For years in my life it was about equal.  Half Jesus. Half me. But Jesus calls me to be “all in” to Him. He demands and deserves to be the sole deity in my life. He isn’t interested in a dual reign or a joint partnership.  Jesus said it in Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”  Life can’t be all about us and all about Jesus at the same time. This makes Paul’s statement that he counted “everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ” (Philippians 3:8) strategically important. Faced with a choice between himself and Jesus, Paul intentionally discarded the things that would draw attention to himself so he could concentrate on knowing and experiencing Jesus. How about you – what are you desperate for?

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