We Need Each Other

“The more I learn about God, the more in awe I am of Him

I feel so at home when I’m with Him, that I never want to leave His presents

The question I always ask myself is why can’t I keep that peace and joy when I go out into the world

That feeling could make my walk with Christ so much more successful”

Well you probably know the problem is sin

A sinful world has a tendency to wear us down

Then we tend to get kind of casual about quiet time

We try to fight through thinking we just need to try harder,

But battles fought without Christ are lost

Unless we’re empowered from constant quiet times with Christ

We’re fighting battles alone

Plus the battles never stops

Constantly fighting is going to results in a defeat unless we’re drawing strength from somewhere

We’re not going to be able to stay strong unless we’re drawing power from a biblical source

The Bible tells us that fellow believers can be that source

God tells us in His word that “Where two or more gather in My name, there I am also”

The ‘in My name’ part is key

If we don’t allow God to take priority in the conversations we have,

And the activities we do

We’re not allowing His presence to guide us

That’s what we need

That’s what fills us with joy

That’s what sustains us throughout the day

We need each other

When we’re meditating on Christ with fellow believers

Christ can come to revive us

Without Him we’re left with all our worldly baggage

We don’t want all of that worldly stuff to bring us down

And the way to keep that from happening is to have fellowship with Believers

People that are filled with Christ just as we are

We need each other

If we miss this fact, we can fall away from Christ very quickly

We can spend our lives feeling empty and alone

So make plans for Bible studies

Attend Church events

Make a conscious decision to spend time with fellow believers

It’s a Christian necessity of life

Take the time and make the plans

You’ll be glad you did

“What’s Important?”

“What’s Important?!

Well, I need to figure out why I’m here.

God has a plan for everyone, right?

So I just need to search harder until I figure out what God wants me to do.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa!  Hold up! Now let’s think this through

We know that God is above all

So above all we need to remember that

It’s His plan we’re striving for

So we should start by putting God in the center of our lives

Now let’s look at how He says we accomplish that

He says that the greatest Commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart

And love your neighbor as yourself

If we’re to love the Lord with all our heart, that makes Him first

You might say we already covered that

But this command goes deeper than just making God first

All of us goes to Him

He’s no longer just the center of life

He’s the center of our attention

We’re to follow His rules

We’re to live for Him above all else

The second part of the verse tells us what we should keep next in line

We’re to love our neighbor as ourselves

Who’s our neighbor?

Anyone other than us

Since sin has made us all selfish creatures

Loving our neighbor as our self means loving others as much as sin would tell us to love ourselves

We already said that we are to love the Lord with all our heart

So if we love our neighbor as much as we would want to love ourselves

Where does that put us?

Last! Right where we should be

We give all of us to God and all of us to other people

Wait a minute

If all of us goes to God, how can we give all of us to other people?

But that is what’s so great about God

The joy and peace that He gives in return doesn’t end

We give our joy to other people because we can’t hold in the amount of joy He fills us with

Our cup is so full of joy that it overflows onto others

That’s why we need to depend on Christ

We need to be filled with Him

We have to be emptied of ourselves

All we truly need is more of Him

That’s what’s Important

Less of us more of Him

With everything we do we should be thinking “Is this God honoring?”

“Am I helping someone else?”

“Am I hurting someone?”

“Am I doing this for me?”

All these Questions need to be answered

God longs for us to live for Him because when we live for ourselves

We miss out on the greater joy that God wants to give us

These questions need to constantly be in our minds

Especially this one

“What’s important?”