Even If i Walk Alone

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

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The Meaning of Life

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Instead of thinking about what you might accomplish in your day, year, or life, focus instead on how others might be impacted by your words and actions. This life isn’t about us. It’s about God and others, although you would never know it by much of our modern culture. Forget about trying to learn this truth from Hollywood or Madison Avenue.

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This life – your life – exists solely to glorify God and to serve others (Matthew 22:37-39). So, instead of calculating what you might do with your life, perhaps instead determine how your life can have the greatest impact for God and for others. This, after all, is the meaning of life.

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No One Gets a Pass

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I don’t know if it’s the way I’m wired, or I developed into this over time, but I am a driven and goal-oriented person. I believe I’m here for a purpose, not just to drift through life. It doesn’t even make sense to me God would create us to pass through life without intention. The apostle Paul told us we have all been created for specific work (Ephesians 2:10).

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So, even if you don’t consider yourself to be driven or goal-oriented, it’s important to understand no one gets a pass when it comes to living their lives for Jesus. Each follower of Christ is mission-bound to live with purpose and intention. It’s how Jesus lived and how we must also if we are serious about living as His disciple and patterning our lives after His.

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Go All the Way

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While apparently never finding truth himself, Buddha is credited with a wise quote I find applicable to our Christian walk. It is reported he said, “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting”. How tragic it is for anyone who never embarks on a journey of pursuing Christ. I don’t understand it. I can’t even conceive how they get through a single day.

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I find believing in anything but Jesus requires far too much faith and suspension of disbelief. But that is all fodder for a different article. Since I’m assuming most if not all the readers of this blog believe Jesus is indeed the Son of God, I want to focus on those who begin their faith journey but quit too soon.

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Nothing to Fear

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We spend too much of our lives in fear. We fear violence, terrorism, being disliked or ridiculed. We fear speaking up for justice or being the dissenting opinion in a crowd of peers. Some fear dying, while others fear being alone. Still others fear being forgotten, passed over, overlooked, or ignored. We fear financial markets and technology. There are so many things about which so many are afraid. This isn’t the way God designed us to live.

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He created us to be more than conquerors (Romans 8:37), with a spirit of boldness, not timidity (2 Timothy 1:7). You were created to love, not fear (1 John 4:18). Since God is for us, we know nothing can stand against us (Romans 8:31). As long as we are living our lives in the pursuit and will of God, we have nothing to fear.

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A Radically Uncommon Life

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I want to live a radically uncommon life. I want to live so differently everyone takes notice. I don’t care if they love me or hate me, I just don’t want them to be able to ignore me. I say this not because I want to be noticed, but so Jesus would be glorified. I want my life to be so different people must acknowledge I am living for a purpose different from that of societal norms. Too often we as Christ followers look no different than our contemporaries.

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We allow ourselves to be so assimilated within our culture no one would ever know we live for a higher calling and purpose. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Peter, one of Jesus’s closest friends, said we are a chosen people, called out of the darkness to walk in the light (1 Peter 2:9). Why do we insist on blending with the shadows when we have been called to shine gloriously?

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