[Mar 8, 2026] His Call

So there's opportunities every day to share your hope. Your hope that is not in this world, this life, it's in the word hope is a person. His name is Jesus. He is our our hope. The greatest form of spiritual warfare is sharing hope and love with people. JC Ryle said, let us often ask ourselves whether our Christianity costs us anything. That kind of rang my chimes when I when I read that. Believing in Jesus doesn't cost you and I a thing. It cost him everything. [00:25:40] (47 seconds)  #ShareHopeDaily

The last thing is this, die to the temporal. Die to what's temporary. Lose your life for me, Jesus said. Dying to the temporal is we do that by exchanging and holding loosely the things of this life in this world and we exchange it for eternity. We exchange it for things that are eternal. The shortness of life should help us live better, live freer, be more loving, be more kind, be more quick to forgive. And it's to see your life as a short term mission trip. [00:28:04] (46 seconds)  #LiveForEternity

Life is a short term mission trip. This is short here. And God put a mission in your heart. You have a testimony. You have words of encouragement. You have love to give to people around you. That's that's that's your mission in life because it's it's gonna end. Right? Jesus said, do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [00:29:41] (51 seconds)  #ShortTermMission

Taking up your cross is giving up your agenda for your life and taking on the agenda of God for your life. Taking on the agenda of God for your life. God's agenda for our lives is better than anything we could think of. It's way better. His agenda for your life is better than anything you could dream up for your yourself. Psalm 37 verse four says, delight yourself in the Lord and he'll give you the desires of your heart. [00:16:06] (37 seconds)  #TakeGodsAgenda

So how do we learn to lay down our agenda and take up his agenda for our life is delight in the Lord. Worship him, adore him, walk with him, put into practice truth in obedience to what he says is the best kind of life. When we do that, we don't have to be suspicious of the desires of our heart. Anybody besides me suspicious of your own motives sometimes? Right? You have to be. But when we're delighting in the Lord, that promise there is the motives of your heart, the desires of your heart will be from God. That's a great place to be. [00:16:42] (40 seconds)  #DelightInTheLord

Discipleship to Jesus is so much more than reading the Bible and praying and going to church. Those are practices and disciplines that are part of our discipleship to Jesus, but discipleship to Jesus is learning how to arrange our lives around the same priorities and practices that we see in the life of Jesus. He's our rabbi. He's our lord. He's our savior, but he's also our rabbi. A disciple of a rabbi followed them around and they learned the scriptures, they learned about what life was from their rabbi. We have the chief rabbi in Jesus. [00:21:27] (41 seconds)  #DiscipleLikeJesus

I want his worldview. I want his understanding of life. And the cool part about being a disciple to Jesus is he said, come to me all you who are labor and are heavy laden. Take my yoke upon you and you'll find rest for your soul. The yoke of a rabbi was the the interpretation of scripture in the worldview of the rabbi. That was that what that yoke symbolized. He says, take my yoke, take my understanding of life, you'll find rest for your soul. Rest for your soul. [00:22:07] (35 seconds)  #FindRestInJesus

Learning to offer our lives as a sacrifice on behalf of others versus my own ambitions to get to the top, to be successful, putting others before our ourselves. And then choose servanthood over power. Choose choose to be a servant over being the one that's in charge or powerful. And we have the ultimate example in Jesus. Right? Here's the one who create created the universe. He comes into this world and he says, I didn't come to be served. He said, I came to serve and give my life as a ransom for the world. [00:22:54] (46 seconds)  #ChooseServanthood