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Following Jesus Abandoning All

Following Jesus is often synonymous with abandoning other things…things we don’t want to abandon. He calls us to do just that.

Abandoning maybe family, maybe friends and maybe romance interests, who are just headed down a dark path away from Christ.

Abandoning our politics with its idolatry about the government.

Abandoning grudges and bitterness in exchange for forgiveness and mercy.

Abandonment of the pursuit of money. for the constant pursuit of Jesus Christ. Which can subtract from our net worth.

Abandoning the hoarding of money to the giving of money away.

Abandoning constant leisure and pleasure for suffering for his name’s sake.

But…If we can keep our eyes fixed on Him, it’s not so hard. He makes it tolerable and sometimes easy.

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Allowing Jesus His Place

To make Jesus Lord of our lives and our fellowships has as much, maybe more to do with the things that we give up and stop doing than it does about doing or saying or singing things like “He is wonderful He is Lord” in public.

Does our behavior toward him and one another when we gather match our rhetoric when we preach and sing?

I’m not talking about giving up sin, that is an important but separate issue altogether.

ALLOWING Jesus to be Lord is the best way to make him Lord and King …which is his rightful place. Christians hold the key to his lordship on earth…for now. Another word for what I am talking about is headship. We say “Jesus is Lord”, but can we say “Jesus is our head”? When we gather. we let a hired great-man (clergy) be the head of the meeting. However, Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit in every member is capable of heading and orchestrating a meeting. You can read about Christian gatherings like this in 1 Corinthians 12-14. And I believe one day we will get back to those sorts of meetings all over the world.

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The Fullness of Life

The fullness of life does not necessarily mean our outward circumstances are successful. Either financially or situationally or activity in church. At times it may look like this, but often it does not. Often it looks like difficulty.

“For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭36:9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

The fullness of life is an inward pulling from the life of Jesus Christ. It is an inward seeing and hearing of Jesus Christ that settles a person from the inside our. That guides a person, that directs a person. Not from manipulating and controlling and making things appear a certain way about ourselves. Then proudly boasting “look I’m rich”, or “look I’m full time at church”, or “look I’m active… this is fullness of life.”

People who teach others to do that are very confused. Our lives should not be engineered to look a certain way to allow us to say we are living by the fullness of life. That’s a waste and an insult to the reality of Christ.

As we seek Jesus first in all things without pretense without controls, as we surrender and obey him then we are able to walk in the fullness of eternal life. But it’s his full life we walk in not a manipulated version of our life based on our preconceived ideas of success.

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