Where Are You Headed In Life? Part 3 — A ‘Time With God’ Audio Devotion

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Good morning.

Let’s start the day the best way possible by listening to God. I love the theme we’ve been looking at all this week as we’ve asked the question, Where are you headed in life? And God has so much to say and insight to give us about that. And each day we’re asking a different, significant question that helps us shape the answer to that question Where am I headed in life?

It’s a choice that you make, right? It doesn’t just happen where you’re headed in life, and some of us don’t ever make the choice, so we just wait for life to unfold, but that’s no way to live. You want to live with purpose. You want to know you’re headed somewhere, that your life means something. You aren’t just living life, you’re headed somewhere.

Well, each day this week we’re asking a significant question to help us answer that. Monday we asked, what is your preferred future and what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve it?

Yesterday we asked the question, what is God’s preferred future for you, and have you embraced it? And we talked about God’s plan that you should live an outward-focused life.

Your preferred future being to impact other people in the most positive way based on the way God has shaped you and built your life to impact others.

The question I want to ask today is this, and I hope you’ll write this down again.

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What or who do you love the most? And how can you put God into that place?

What or who do you love the most and how can you put God in that place?

Let me read you a couple of verses out of the Bible. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians, the Book of 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 14 and 15. Here’s what Paul says,

For the love of Christ controls us because we have concluded this, that one has died for all. Therefore all have died, and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves. But for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Well, what a passage.

The love of Christ controls us, he says. Who do you love the most? For the apostle Paul, he loved the Lord Jesus Christ. What Jesus had done for him in dying on the cross and rising again. And the reason Jesus died and rose again wasn’t just so that we would feel good.

But so that we would love him back with the same wholehearted sacrificial love that he loved us.

Well, who do you love the most or what do you love the most, because what you love the most is what drives you forward in life, right? And of course you’re going to love yourself. The Bible says love your neighbour as yourself. Of course you love yourself. You take care of yourself. You avoid painful situations and dangerous situations. That’s right. And you love other people and you love God.

But the question is, who do you love the most?

That’s one of the most important questions you could ever answer in life. Someone asked Jesus one day, what’s the most important command in all the Bible? And Jesus said, quoting from Deuteronomy, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all your strength. And the second thing is love your neighbour, love others in your life as you love yourself.

Well, here it is, who you love the most is going to really decide what your preferred future is and whether you embrace God’s preferred future for you. It decides whether your life is inward focused or outward focused.

It decides whether your life makes a difference in this world, or whether you’re only focused on your own pleasure and satisfaction.

Write the question down. Take some time to write out an answer to it today. Who do I love the most and how can I put God in that place?

I’m John North.

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