Even If i Walk Alone

Instructing and encouraging you to live your life as a disciple of Jesus

Discipleship

Take Jesus with You

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Wherever you go, take Jesus with you. He’s right beside you anyway, but sometimes (most times?) we forget He is there. Our conversations are light, superficial, and inconsequential. We talk about the weather, sports, fashion, entertainment, and politics. If we recognized Jesus as being present in that place, would those be the topics of our conversations? I can’t imagine sitting down to a meal with Jesus and just shooting the breeze.

To be in the presence of holiness should do something to us. (Isaiah 6:1-5; Luke 5:8) It should change the topic of what we discuss and upend all our pursuits. Understanding that Jesus is with us in every moment of our lives should change the way we live. (Matthew 28:19-20; Colossians 3:17) If it doesn’t, then we have no clue about who Jesus is. (Luke 6:46; 1 John 2:3-6)

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Why Would You Choose Sin?

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When faced with the choice of honoring or dishonoring God, why would you choose sin? After all the Lord has done for you, why would you choose to serve Satan instead of Him? To my shame, I have to ask myself this question far too often. Like Paul, I don’t do the things I want to do, and I do the things I don’t want to do. (Romans 7:15-19) It’s maddening!

How can we love Christ so much and still live our lives as if He were not more important than anyone or anything else? Christ is Lord; of that there is no doubt. (Philippians 2:9-11; Acts 2:36) But if we aren’t living that truth, then we’re living a lie and a life of delusion. (Luke 6:46; James 1:22)

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Blood on Our Hands

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Every day, tens of thousands of people die. By the most conservative estimates, over 100,000 people each day breathe their last and open their eyes in Hell. That crushes me, and it should decimate every soul who professes Jesus as Lord. It gets worse. I submit to you that for all those going to Hell, we have blood on our hands.

Paul says, “But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:14). We are those preachers of the Word because Jesus told us to proclaim the gospel to the whole world (Mark 16:15; Matthew 28:19-20). When we fail His commission, we cannot escape the fact that people are going to Hell on our watch.

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I Urge You

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When seeking how best to live our lives for Christ, there is great value in looking at what the apostles had to say about this. In the New Testament epistles, we find sections where both Peter and Paul made statements to the effect of, “If you want to live holy lives, I urge you to…” It’s there in black and white.

The very Word of God tells us what we should do to live a life pleasing to God and that would have us look like Jesus. It’s sad how easy it is to gloss over these passages when there is so much gold to be mined from them. It’s why we shouldn’t just read the Bible; we must study it, marinate in it, and bathe in it. Studying the Word of God is never a waste of time.

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I Need God Now

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When facing a crisis, have you ever said, or heard someone say, “I need God now?” It’s true we need God in times of chaos and trouble. It is also true that we need Him every other second of life. Without God, even for the smallest moment, the entire universe would collapse upon itself. (Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:3) There is no part of life that can survive except for the sustaining hand of our Creator. (Acts 17:24-25; Job 34:14-15)

We don’t just need Him when times are tough; we need Him at all times. This is a shift we must all make to mature in our faith. There is not what we do and what God does; He does it all. We are powerless to affect anything in this life without the providence of God’s power and His will.

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