Follow God
This is the conclusion of my 4-part series about "Living in the Light." Over the past week we have talked about how to conquer those "spiritual highs" that we face in life. Whether it be kids who have just completed VBS, youth who have come back from camp, or adults after a revival or Sunday service, we are to always follow God in life. We have seen the importance of not sinning, and why we should love both God and our neighbors. But today, we will wrap it all up in the idea of following God.
Luke 9:23 says it best - "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."
This verse is pretty straight forward. We must deny ourselves and choose to follow Him. This ties right in with everything we have talked about recently. We have to choose to put ourselves to the side. We cannot focus on pleasing us all day everyday. Instead, we have to look to God, see what He would have us do, and pursue Him. We follow in His footsteps and and live in the light.
Again, this is pretty simplistic. There is not much more I can say about this. We have to make a decision to follow Christ daily. And this includes a desire to stop sinning. Along with that we have to love others and love God. What I want to leave with you at the end of this blog series is this: To live in the light, we must follow God. Everything I have mentioned this past week all ties back into this one idea of following God.
So as you go about your daily life, make the decision to live for God. It is a choice that we have to make each morning. Just like this post is very repetitive in some places, our lives will be in a sense repetitive (only in a good way). Each day we can start over, choosing to live for Christ that day. If we make that decision each morning, God can guide us in living in the light all day long.
Matt
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