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You only have one life.
What is it for exactly?
Or we could ask, What is the point of life?
How do we know that we are not wasting our life?
These are a few of my questions and fears
Today we will seek to answer this question through the lens of the Bible.
What is the point to my life as a Christian?
We will answer this question with the help of two very familiar passages in Matthew that will give us Perspective & Purpose.
I believe these two passages of scripture are a summary of the Christian life.
Perspective
When I was younger, I would wander around aimlessly with no real goals in life outside of becoming a pro athlete or rock star.
In my mind, everything was about me.
I had built up this false reality that somehow this life was for me to make something out of myself.
This lackadaisical attitude did not lead me far in life.
As I began to get older, friends and loved ones have passed, I started a family, etc… I quickly realized that life was not all about me.
I was desparate to make something of my life, yet did not know wh
A lot of Christians are the same way, they have the wrong perspective when it comes to their faith.
Many believers have an it’s all about me mentality when it comes to Jesus.
We have the mindset that God revolves around us and our lives
When in reality, we revolve around Him.
I need to grow in m
Let’s look at a passage that I believe will lay out how simple (in theory) Christianity really is.
Let’s look at a passage
This passage will give you the proper perspective for how to navigate life.
Christianity can be boiled down to two simple commandments
Love God with all you heart, soul, and mind
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Let’s break this down a bit to understand how this will give us proper perspective.
Love God
The first and great commandment is for us to love God.
I know that you’re thinking, Mason, tell me something I don’t know.
But that’s the beautiful thing about Christianity, it’s not complicated.
Love God, it’s really that simple.
Matthew 22:
Love Him with all your heart
or with your emotions
Love Him with all your soul
or with your inner self
That world for soul is a derivative of the word psyche.
Love Him with all your mind
Or with your understanding or intelligence
This means that we love God with everything that we are.
with every fiber of your being
The real question to unpack.
How is a love for God developed?
How do you get to know anyone?
By spending quality time with them.
How do you get to know anyone?
By spending quality time with them.
Bear with me, I promise this will all make sense in a minute, just need to connect a few dots along the way
Our eternal life is equated with intimately knowing and being known by God through the person of Jesus Christ.
The Bible says in that there is one mediator, or middle man, between God and men and thats Jesus.
We get to know God through Jesus.
In we see Jesus portrayed as the very Word of God.
Skip down to verse 14
Now, let’s connect a few dots.
Jesus tells us in that we are to love God with everything we’ve got.
We know that if we want to love God with everything we’ve got, then we need to spend time with Him.
Spending time with God is accomplished through the mediator between God and men, the man Jesus.
Jesus is the Word of God as seen in
Therefore, we can conclude if we are to love God with all of our heart, soul, and mind, then we need to spend time with Jesus in the Word of God.
When you begin to daily seek out the Lord, something amazing happens.
You start to grow in faith and love towards God.
Wanna grow in faith, then listen to the word of God.
One final note on loving God, ask God for a supernatural love for Him.
He will answer that prayer 100% of the time.
Matthew 7:7-8
Jesus repeats the same statement twice.
He means what He is saying.
Something really cool starts to happen when we love God with everything we’ve God.
Love People
Something really cool starts to happen when we love God with everything we’ve God.
We begin to develop a love for the things He loves.
Can anyone guess what He loves above anything and everything else?
People.
In like manner to loving God, we are to love people.
God loved people so much that He sent His Son Jesus to die for us.
People are of eternal value to God.
People are of eternal value to God.
Loving people is incredibly hard for me.
It is not natural for me to love people that do not also love me.
It is important to not the order of the commands, first we love God, in like manner we love people.
It is a natural progression, as we grow in love for God we will grow in love for the things He loves.
This is can been seen through relationship with friends or spouses.
When I met my wife I did not know her in the slightest.
As we spent more time together, we got more comfortable around each other and our love for one another began to grow.
We enjoyed the same type of food.
We started liking the same kind of music.
We had our own inside jokes that no one else finds funny.
Now we know each other inside and out.
Through spending so much time together we are extremely similar in a lot of areas.
I think we can all relate to this, the more time we spend with someone the more we become like them.
This is no different with our relationship with God.
As we follow Jesus we will naturally develop a heart for the things God loves.
Is there a place to fit in
This leads us to our next point, this is where a biblical Perspective on life gives you immense Purpose.
Purpose
Question:
Why did God not take us out of here after we got saved?
because you were saved for more than just going to heaven.
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