I DIE EVERYDAY

Til the Day I Die

Holy Cow!  I don’t know about you, but with a week off and another week that was a little weird I feel like it’s been a months since we met for Deepen.  I cannot wait to see you guys Sunday.

Til the Day I die is what we have been talking about.  What can I not live without til the day I die?  Or in other words…If your life were like an onion and you peeled away all the layers (when your mom peels onions does it make you cry?)what would be left in the center?

PRAYER:  God, you are my God.  There is no one and nothing that compares to You.  Even the greatest gifts you give me do not compare to loving You.

GRAB YOUR BIBLE:  Read Matthew 10:38-39 and Matthew 16:24.

Matthew 10:38-39 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.³⁹ Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

 ^{Matthew 16:24}Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”

Take a minute to read those two similar verses again.  What does it mean to take up my cross?  What does it mean if I save my life, I will lose it?

Paul, who God used to write a lot of the New Testament in the Bible said, “I die everyday.”  John Piper, pastor and author, writes, “Daily Christian living is daily Christian dying.  The dying I have in mind is the dying of comfort and security and reputation and health and family and friends and health and homeland.”

To die daily is to say these things will not control me and my decisions.  I will let Jesus lead me in my life and in my decisions.  Or in other words, “I die everyday to the these things that the world tells me I need.”

PRAYER:  God, this is a hard saying, “ I die everyday.”  I am not sure I get all that it means for me.  Will you give me a teachable heart and mind so you can show me?  I just know I want to love you most, above all things.