Living For Jesus

Some people are committed to nothing. Some people are committed to things that promise certain failure. Some people are committed to gambles that might pay off and might cost their lives. It is no gamble to take a chance by committing all you think and say and do to Jesus, your King. If you are taking your life and daily considering it nailed to a cross with Him, He will lead you through every mistake or failure or confusion. You will see His Kingdom in your life.

While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”

“But you,” He asked them, “who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered, “God’s Messiah!”

But He strictly warned and instructed them to tell this to no one, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.”

Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it. What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and that of the Father and the holy angels. I tell you the truth: there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”
(Luke 9:18-27 HCSB ©®)

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.
(2 Corinthians 5:15 HCSB ©®)