Even If i Walk Alone

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

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Hurried

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We will not run into Satan face to face most days. We meet him in far more subtle ways. In his book, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, John Mark Comer describes our encounters with Satan this way: “Today, you’re far more likely to run into the enemy in the form of an alert on your phone while you’re reading your Bible or a multi-day Netflix binge or a full-on dopamine addiction to Instagram or a Saturday morning at the office or another soccer game on a Sunday or commitment after commitment after commitment in a life of speed.”

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We are so busy, so hurried, that Jesus is being systematically squeezed out of our lives. And the enemy loves it. He barely needs to lift a finger anymore. Once he got the ball rolling, we did the rest. We’ve made his job ridiculously easy. “The devil made me do it” no longer holds water because we are wholly complicit.

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The Most Important Thing

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When the most important thing isn’t your most important thing, then you haven’t got a thing. That’s the convoluted but pertinent thought that came into my mind as I was contemplating what to do next on a recent day. The reality is God is everything to us or He is nothing at all. There is no part-time God. There is only one God, and He demands our full attention and our full devotion.

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In return, we get all of Him. It’s a no-lose proposition. And yet every day we live our lives as if we don’t want the deal. We want God sometimes, but living our lives in complete devotion means surrendering too much of our selfish desires. We don’t want to let go, even though we know what we are getting in return is so much better.

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Seeing Jesus

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Do you ever think about seeing Jesus? I don’t mean the casual way we sometimes say the phrase, but rather giving serious thought to the moment you meet Him face to face. I think it’s a great exercise that is at once both exhilarating and terrifying. It’s exhilarating because we will know the struggle is over. Everything we’ve endured will be worth it, and we will spend the rest of eternity in the presence of Christ.

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I can’t even imagine the tears that will flow that day as an overwhelming peace and rest floods our souls. At the same time, seeing Jesus face to face is a terrifying proposition. His Holiness will make it clear how unworthy we are. I imagine my mind will fill with all the times I let Him down and all the things I left unsaid or undone. We will have no other option but to fall at His feet and beg for mercy.

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A Disciple of Jesus

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In these crazy and unpredictable days, it’s hard for me not to feel like I’m sounding like a broken record. The Gospel is a simple message, and there are only so many ways to tell the story. The same is true for discipleship, which is the natural follow-up to salvation. To be a disciple of Jesus means we do what Jesus commands us to do. Discipleship demands we live lives where we love like Jesus.

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At the core, disciples are those who love God with their entire heart, soul, strength, and mind (Mark 12:28-30). And we love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31). Yet we will fill our minds with everything happening around us if we aren’t careful and intentional with our thinking. We will get caught up in the flow of culture and drift from our King and our purpose instead of focusing on Jesus’s beauty and His mission.

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God’s Plans

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God’s plans for you will always be bigger than the plans you have for yourself. Don’t waste your life working on your plans. Focus instead on God’s plans. It’s a radical mind-shift to no longer pursue our dreams and goals. For those of us who have spent decades in pursuit of something, it seems unnatural to let it go.

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Perhaps what you’ve been chasing is what God intends for you to do, in which case you can continue the pursuit but with a different motive for your desires. But often, God’s intention for us will differ from our dreams. Our dreams are tainted and influenced by what the world tells us we want. God’s dreams for us are not only bigger but more pure and meaningful. When we spend our lives in pursuit of His plans, our lives will be full of meaning and satisfaction.

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