"Walking in the Truth" - Living Life with a Purpose

This Thursday I am leading devotions in my homeroom class, and I decided to share with you what I've decided to speak about. These are my exact notes for this Thursday morning:

In my Sunday school class we’ve been doing these really cool sessions called “Chasing Daylight”. Basically what they are about is “seizing the power of every moment” and “choosing to live by making the right choices with impact”. Cheesy and out-of-this-world as this may sound, I think what I’ve learned so far has really helped me. It also sort of matches what we spoke about in FLAG week last week. We spoke about “walking in the truth” with God, right? Well, today I decided to share what walking in the truth means to me.

To me, walking in the truth is a basic translation of living life with a real purpose. The only problem with our society today is that we try to avoid the pain of fear and doubt by “just getting by”. A lot of our secret philosophies on life are “live a party now, ask God for forgiveness later, and then go to heaven”. But that’s not what God has planned for our lives.

The book Chasing Daylight says:

You were born to live a great adventure; You were created with a divine destiny; You are called to fulfill a great mission. You were designed for unique purpose. Now you are called to live it out.

This is kinda like what our speaker last week told us: life is an epic journey, right? What this book talks about is that God is so often misunderstood when people know Him for judgment and rules. Actually, Jesus calls us to a life of unimaginable adventure. And it begins the moment we choose to follow Him. Because when we do, we pass from a mere existence to real, true life of walking in the truth. His promise is that in Him we will find the life that our hearts have always longed for.

The most spiritual activity you engage in everyday is making choices. When you think about the story of Adam and Eve, they had a Garden full of endless opportunities for pleasure. And yet, they chose another path, one that severed their relationship with God forever. Like with them, the choices we make either bring us closer to God or move us away from Him.   

One encouraging thing I noticed about this story was that, when Adam was hiding after his sin, God set out in search of him. Even when we get lost, God and His mercy still pursue us and invite us to once again join His divine adventure.

Now I ask you: Have you confused the blessing of God with wealth, comfort and security? There are things that God does for you and then there are things that He’s waiting for you to do. The journey begins when you choose to “stop wasting daylight” and start to live in the epicenter of God’s activity.

There is no principle that says everyone who does God’s will lives – at least not on this earth. Even when we live, it doesn’t mean the victory comes without suffering.

Here's something else from Chasing Daylight:

If we are going to seize divine moments, we must accept the reality that we have no control over many things. We have no control over when we die or how we die. We must take responsibility over what we do have control over – how we choose to live.

Jesus said, “If you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move mountains.” He didn’t say that we should all have a tiny bit of faith. He’s saying that it takes very little faith to accomplish great things.

To follow Jesus is to enter the unknown, and to push away security and certainty for full confidence in Him.

Are you willing to live a life that honors God and reflects His character and leave the outcome to Him? There will be days on this journey of faith when the crystal clear outcome will be something you don’t like. On those days you must, like Jesus, declare, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; and may not my will, but yours be done. Amen”.

Okaaaay. So that's my devotion. I realize that I have a few random, non related thoughts thrown in here and there, but that's what was on my mind at the time, and I think it's important for my classmates to know this stuff. 

Please pray for me as I give this devotional - I'm really praying that God will use me to speak some change into my friends' lives. Also, I pray that God will help me not to be nervous and that I can take on this "challenge" with full certainty of what He has planned and how He wants the devotional to go.

Amen!