Daily Life

Victorious

October 17, 2019 by Tim Sherfy

We all want to feel like a winner. Nobody wants to live their life in defeat. We fear failure because of the chance we’ll be labeled a loser. I submit we spend a large portion of our life focused on winning. We want to win in our relationships, with our finances, our career, and in pretty much any competition in which we engage. That pretty well covers how we spend our days. I dare say we might even be obsessed with winning. Otherwise, why would we spend so much of our lives focused on it?

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The best news is God has already declared you a winner. All things were created through His perfect Son Jesus, which means all things were perfectly created. You are the exact combination of skills, talents, and passions He created you to be. You are loved by the eternal King of the universe. That sounds like a winner to me. In Jesus, you are victorious before you ever begin!

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Focus and Distraction

October 14, 2019 by Tim Sherfy

Do you feel as if you spend most of your time simply keeping up with the demands of life, or are you experiencing freedom and fullness? Jesus came to set us free (Luke 4:18-21) and to give us a full and abundant life (John 10:10). Knowing this, why is it so many of us feel stressed out, chained to our jobs, and like we are drowning under the weight of everything we must get done?

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I do believe we can live in the peace of Jesus even in our social media obsessed and frenetic world. But we won’t ever experience the life God intended for us to live as long as our focus is on anything or anyone other than Him.

Make it Count

October 10, 2019 by Tim Sherfy

What are you going to do today that matters? I believe followers of Jesus bear the responsibility to ask this question every day. Whatever else we might do today, we’ve got to make it count for Jesus. It’s unbelievable how we’ve allowed ourselves to be co-opted into the culture and we now spend every waking hour, and pretty much every dollar, on things having no eternal value. Friends – Church! – we must wake up.

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Real people, individuals just like you and me, are dying and going to Hell every day of our lives. They are going to Hell because no one told them there was a better way. No one told them no matter what they had done, they were not beyond the love of Jesus. No one told them because we didn’t tell them. We let the day pass by, and we didn’t make it count.

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Rededicate

October 7, 2019 by Tim Sherfy

It doesn’t take much to see our world is heading in the wrong direction. For those of us in the West, I believe we must accept our own share of responsibility for the way things are. After all, we’ve had religious freedom for a long time. We’ve had knowledge of our Savior for centuries. Somewhere along the line we stopped living as if Jesus was the only thing that mattered and found ourselves more and more seeking our own comfort and security. How can we who have been given so much think we will escape judgment for how little we have done?

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We not only are disobeying Christ’s command to tell everyone about Him (Matthew 28:18-20), but we no longer live as if Jesus is the Lord we claim Him to be. So, we are both disobedient and hypocritical. This is who we have become. This will be our legacy. Is that okay with you? Do you think this is the victorious life to which we have all been called (1 John 5:3-5)?

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Right Here, Right Now

October 3, 2019 by Tim Sherfy

Too often we are consumed thinking of what’s next instead of being concerned about what’s now. We miss the whole point of today gazing longingly at tomorrow. We’re all hoping for better days. We all want something more. Perhaps tomorrow our ship will come in. Next week will hold that promotion, settlement, or lucky break. The future holds great promise and we can’t wait to experience what it may offer. I believe the point of life is not somewhere in the distance but rather right here, right now.

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We have little sway over the future. Circumstances bigger and more numerous than we can conceive will weigh in on what our future looks like. But this moment we have in our hands, the time we have right here, right now, is ours to impact and influence. The responsibility is huge and weighty. We must not let it pass us by.