Motivation

      Why does one keep on with trying to walk with Jesus and His commands and Jesus thinking and not just return to the world and its thinking (I.e. homosexuality issue, integrity, fornication, etc.)? The thinking is, I am going to Heaven and it looks like there is no downside to indulgences on my part, Christ work has saved me and He isn’t going to take it back. Christ loves me no matter what. Why not just live my life in harmony with the people around me? Why be an odd ball and think like those bunch of hypocrites of believers. There is an argument that goes, abortion sometime is required, and fornication is fun, why not eat drink and be merry for tomorrow I die…As an old saying goes, “get all you can, can all you get and poison all the rest”

Verses for thoughts:

Luk 9:23 And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

9:24 whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Luk 9:25 For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

Luk 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Notice the “Action” phrases

Take up
Follow me
Save his life
Lose his life
Gain
Lose or forfeit
Ashamed
Jesus said these things and we should make careful study of them.

When is the last time you looked upon your walk and contemplated your gain in a careful study?

1Timorthy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain:

Luke 9:23-26 are doable commands/instructions if we see our life as eternal with consequence

And not a mere 70-80 years.

If all there is..is only now…as the Greeks said: “Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die”.

The person who lives a life of self-denial and serving God without a thought of the future and without rewards, is mindless. But there is a payout in Heaven and we should look forward to that and be motivated today and tomorrow by that.

Rev 22:12 Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

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