Christians are a people who are supposed to live their lives to the full in the service of God, who has secured for us a place in eternity. Because Christ owned us by purchasing us with His very own blood, He has the right to tell us what to do with our lives, and in fact He did tell us what to do. Are we doing it?
Many Christians say they want to serve God with all they have, but don't. Many say that they love God with their lives, but are actually afraid and reluctant to suffer for His sake. The very thought of Christ bleeding dry on the cross, being abandoned by the very people He loved, and even forsaken by God who sent Him for the purpose of redeeming us, should break our hearts and make us realise that we are indebted to Him forever.
No "calling," no "anointing," no "destiny" can ever and should ever compare to the cross of Christ when it comes to motivating us to live for God with all we've got. It's not because of us. It's all because of Him.
Do you want to love God and live for Him with all you have? Here are some verses that will give you reasons to do so.
Isaiah 53:2-6 – "My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all." | PixabayGalatians 2:19-20 – "For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." | PixabayRomans 6:5-11 – "Since we have been united with [Christ] in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus." | Pixabay
