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Even If i Walk Alone

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Be Humble

April 7, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

It’s not easy to be humble. I don’t mean the humility that refrains from boasting about one’s accomplishments, but the humility that comes from recognizing how helpless and utterly dependent we are on God. In Western culture, it is a virtue to be self-reliant. We men especially do not like to ask for help, although I see an increasing number of women afflicted with the same malady. We like to think we can handle whatever comes our way and can figure out how to solve our problems.

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But that’s not humility; it’s a manifestation of pride. What’s true is we can do nothing without Christ (John 15:5). We can’t breathe, think, talk or act except for the abilities He provides. While we like to think of ourselves as self-sufficient, without God, we are nothing but deficient (Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 3:5).

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Who is Your Master?

March 24, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

No matter how independent we might like to think we are, each of us serves one master or another in this life. The only question is, who is your master? Peter teaches we are all slaves to whatever defeats us (2 Peter 2:19). We all have our vices and are subject to them at different points in our lives. Perhaps it would be better to ask, “What is your master?”

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But we can always trace the “what” back to a “who”. We know that all good things come from Christ (James 1:17) and that every lie finds its source in Satan (John 8:44). If we are slaves to certain lusts, desires, and passions, then our master is the devil (1 John 3:8). But if we keep ourselves pure and hold true to the gospel of Jesus, then He is indeed our Lord and Master (John 14:21; Romans 6:22).

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Have You Died?

January 30, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

You claim Jesus is the Lord of your life, but have you died to sin? Both cannot be true in one’s life. We cannot serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). If we are a slave to sin, we cannot be a servant of God (John 8:34; Romans 6:16). In the same manner, if we are a slave of Christ, sin no longer has any claim on our lives (Romans 6:17-18). There is tremendous freedom in that realization. The chains of sin will drag us to an eternal death, but the blood of Christ penetrates those shackles and causes them to fall away (Colossians 2:13-14).

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We no longer have to carry the weight of our sins (Psalm 103:12; 1 Peter 2:24). As free men and women, why would we ever choose to hunt down those chains, reassemble them and clamp them back on? We need not do that, and if our commitment to Christ is genuine, we never will.

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Without Excuse

January 27, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

When it comes to recognizing Jesus as Lord, all people are without excuse. There will be a day when each of us will face the Judge of the Universe, and none of our objections will be worth anything. No one will be able to say they were never aware of the truth about God (Romans 1:18-20). None of us will receive a stay of execution or a little more time to think things through (Hebrews 9:27-28).

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All at once, every excuse we ever gave for rejecting Christ will be both meaningless and damning. The bold and the meek will face the same fate. The strong and the weak will bear the same weight. There is no favoritism with God (Acts 10:34-35; Romans 2:11), and each of us will give the reason we did or did not bow to Jesus as King (Romans 14:11-12; Philippians 2:9-11).

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Make the Most of It

December 19, 2024 by Tim Sherfy

When you meet Jesus, will He find that you’ve made the most of your life in this world, while thinking little of the life to come? I hope not. When choosing how to spend our life on earth, we must make the most of it. We only get one trip through this life. One journey to define our allegiance, one adventure to create a story.

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What is the story you are writing? Is it one filled with achievement, wealth, power, and conquest? Or is it one of surrender, submission, purpose, and humility? Which of those stories do you think God intends for you to write? Which will bring glory and honor to Him (1 Corinthians 10:31)?

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