Our Story
Now what?
What do I & What do you do with the RISEN LORD?
"______ *(put your name in the blanks)
has been crucified with CHRIST and _____* no longer lives, but CHRIST lives in _____*.
The life I ______* now live in the body, _______* lives by faith in the SON OF GOD ,
who loved _____* and gave HIMSELF for _____*" (Galatians 2:20).
I want to be like JESUS.~
ALWAYS.
I want to
ALWAYS wear HUMILITY
Like JESUS did~
"Your attitude should be the same as that of CHRIST JESUS:
Who, being in very nature GOD,
Did not consider equality with GOD something to be grasped,
but made HIMSELF nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, HE humbled HIMSELF" (Philippians 2:8).
But I don't~
ALWAYS
I want to ALWAYS OBEY
Like JESUS did~
“Although HE was a SON
HE learned obedience from what HE suffered and, once made perfect,
HE became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey HIM” (Hebrews 5:8).
But I don't~
ALWAYS!
I want to ALWAYS
Not Succumb to TEMPTATION
Like JESUS did~
“... but we have ONE who has been tempted in every way,
just as we are—yet was without sin...” (Hebrews 4:15).
But I don't~
ALWAYS!
I want to ALWAYS LOVE
Like JESUS did~
"love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44)
But I don't~
ALWAYS!
I want to ALWAYS SEE
Like JESUS did~
"For the joy set before HIM" (Hebrews 12:2)
because JESUS never lost sight to where HE was headed~
to HIS real home where HIS citizenship was.
HIS eyes focused on the unseen, with HIS heart fixed on HIS purpose~
HIS FATHER'S will.
HE was able to walk the talk, because HIS eyes were fixed beyond the cross~
"For the joy set before HIM"
for that is GOD'S will for our lives~
To live in the JOY found in
JESUS.
I want to ALWAYS WALK
Like JESUS did~
But I can't & you can't~
ALWAYS
because
We need JESUS
to
Walk with ALWAYS!
So let's Journey together
and Put JESUS into our story because HE ROSE to put HIMSELF in ours~
"Keep _____'s* eyes on JESUS,
who both began and finished this race we’re in.
Study, ______*, how HE did it. Because HE never lost sight of where HE was headed—
that exhilarating finish in and with GOD—
HE could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever.
And now HE'S there, in the place of honor, right alongside GOD.
When you, ________,* find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again,
item by item, that long litany of hostility HE plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into______'s* soul! (Hebrews 12:2-3 "Personalized Version MSG)
Because
JESUS is our
"WAY MAKER" (listen to the song below)