FUELED
July 31, 2005
Life in Christ is a life of freedom.
Life with God that’s nothing more than showing up
and punching a clock is DEAD!
It’s not that there’s not a place for you in a
church, it’s that you haven’t filled your place.
1 Corinthians 12:12-20
“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many
parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with
Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or
Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Now the
body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say,
"Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not
for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say,
"Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not
for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye,
where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would
the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body,
every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part,
where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
Outside of Jesus Christ, we can have existence, but
we can have no life.
When you serve, you’re
lining yourself up with the very nature of God, and you can experience
the fullness of Christ.
There is NOTHING in life apart
from God that you can do, or make, or have, or experience that will mean
anything in eternity.
It means that we're
supposed to use our lives to serve God no matter what we're doing.
Ask, "What am I
doing in life that will produce good fruit?
What am I doing that
will bring joy into my life?
What am I doing to allow
God to fulfill me?"
Dear God, I’m ready to have
a real relationship with you. I realize that the sum of my life to this point
was sin and that my sin is the reason I have been separated from you. I know that I need you and I ask you to
forgive me. Jesus, I know that you
served me first by dying for me and I know that you rose again, so I ask you
into my life, as my Lord. I accept the
forgiveness that you freely give. Thank
you for giving me a new life. Help me to
live for you now. Amen.