Even If i Walk Alone

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

Discipleship

Reorient Your Life

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If you want to look like Jesus, love like Jesus, and live like Jesus, you must reorient your life. There’s no way we can continue living as we always have and be a disciple of Jesus. I think this is what so many of us get wrong when we come to Jesus. We see Him as an addition to our lives instead of a complete replacement. There is no negotiation process for our surrender.

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We give up our lives and Jesus takes over. From that moment forward, being a disciple demands you reorient your life to pursue only Jesus and the things that will advance His Kingdom. This will seem like a very large ask unless you are so in love with Jesus that you can’t imagine a moment without Him.

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Impact or Distraction

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Everything we think, say, and do will impact others for Jesus or distract them from His truth. Our lives will be all about Jesus or about nothing at all. If we want to impact others for Jesus, we must live like Jesus. We won’t impact them in our power, because we have no answers on our own.

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It is only the blood of Jesus that can cleanse people of their sins. It is only the love of Jesus that can redeem them from their brokenness. So, if we aren’t showing them the love of Jesus and telling them of His sacrifice on their behalf, then we are only distracting them from the truth with whatever else we say or do.

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Pursuing Discipleship

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A helpful question to ask yourself when pursuing discipleship is, “Am I a better disciple with or without this in my life?” The “this” could be any activity which you pursue. Your “this” might be the name of an individual or group of individuals. It’s a question we should ask ourselves throughout the day until it becomes second nature.

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Until we spend our time doing things that make us better disciples, things that make us look more like Jesus, we will never become the person He intends for us to be. The problem is, while many of us might ask this question of ourselves, few of us will do the hard work of changing our behavior to be consistent with the answer to the question.

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A Wartime Mindset

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Followers of Jesus should live with a wartime mindset, but most of us are strolling through life as if we are in the greatest peace-time in history. We take spiritual things lightly and give significant weight to the physical world. It’s the most short-sighted strategy we could adopt, and the devil continues to deceive us into believing we are being smart. One thing I know for certain is no matter what comes out of the mouth of Satan, it will be a lie (John 8:44). So whatever he puts in our mind, we should do the opposite. Immediately.

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We are not at peace. We are at war. Your soul, the soul of your family, and the souls of your friends are under attack. Satan wants to distract you from the truth, so he distorts it. The longer we believe we’re not living in a war zone, the harder it becomes to break out of the stupor and see the battle raging around us.

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What do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

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When you are young, people often ask you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Our answers were always filled with the exuberant and innocent dreams of youth. My earliest recollection of answering that question was that I wanted to be Spiderman. That didn’t pan out and I still haven’t had any encounters with a radioactive spider, so like many passing fancies of youth, it’s probably time to let that dream go.

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But the question of “What do you want to be when you grow up” is a good one for all would-be disciples of Jesus. And it can only have one answer: “I want to be just like Jesus.” While my childhood dream of being Spiderman had no basis on reality, the aim of living like Jesus is both an attainable and worthwhile pursuit.

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