The other day someone asked me what makes me feel most “alive.” It’s fun to think about the things that give us the greatest pleasure and fulfillment. But as a set-apart young woman, a better question to ask (and a more Biblical one) would be “what makes me feel most dead to myself and alive in Christ?” The Christian life isn’t about what WE want and what makes US feel good – but about laying down our own agenda and rights in exchange for His life. It’s not an easy life (it leads to the Cross) but it is the most fulfilling existence there is.
I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ
Phil 3:8 NASB
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I think that’s one of the hardest parts of being a Christian sometimes, doing what GOD wants you to do rather than what YOU want to do. I want to go to movies with my friends even tho a lot of them God probably wouldn’t be too happy about. So that’s hard to say I can’t, but I do. There are a lot of other things, but that one’s on my mind.
Comment by Courtney Elise