You Can Get There From Here

Day 106  Single-Mindedly Serve Christ

Romans 14:17-18 (The Message)

God's kingdom isn't a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness' sake. It's what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Do that and you'll kill two birds with one stone: pleasing the God above you and proving your worth to the people around you.

What does it mean to “single-mindedly serve Christ?” Before we surrender our lives to Christ, we are pretty much serving ourselves.  Everything is all about us…..what people have done to us, withheld from us, said about us……etc.  When we make Jesus our Lord then it’s no longer about us, but it’s about how we can be a blessing in the kingdom of God. 

At first we think maybe we can hold on to some of our “old stuff,” like bad habits, wrong attitudes, wrong patterns of thinking and behavior.  The truth of the matter is----we can’t.  We can’t excuse our way into a place of compromise.  In doing so confusion sets in and then it’s impossible to have the mind of Christ.  If we don’t have His mind, we’ll want to shrink back into serving ourselves once again.

The ways of God’s kingdom are far different than the ways of our present world.  As we learn God’s ways, He will show us how to walk them out in our existing environments.  He is aware of where we live and He knows just how He wants us to live so that many will see our love for Him and for people and be drawn to Christ themselves.

God knows what family we are in, where we work and fellowship and what territory we reside in.  We are there because God wants to use us there.  Our first instruction is to pray and ask God to remove the “self” from our lives, and then to pray for those around us so that we will know how to share His love with them.  When we are doing that, we will be serving Christ “single-mindedly.”

GPS  (Directions)

·         Spend some time thinking how you can put these scriptures into practice in your life.

Ephesians 4:23  Amplified Bible

Romans 12:2

Ephesians 6:7 NIV

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Prayer Focus:

Ask God how to make more room for Him in your daily life.  Rearrange things in your life so that you have time to meet with Him each day.  Ask God to equip you to serve Him in all that you say and all that you do.