Your Dominant Life Value (Read Mark 12:29-31)
What is your dominant life value? According to author Tom Holladay, your dominant life value is what you base your decisions on. Is it money? Happiness? Fame? Comfort? Security? Attention? Fun? Whether you realize it or not, something drives your everyday decisions. Let me explain this further. If money is your dominant life value, then you will always choose the option that provides the most financial gain. If happiness, you will choose what will provide the most happiness. When given a choice, your choice will be dictated by your dominant life value.
This week Frazer begins a new series entitled Follow Jesus. It is our hope that the next five weeks will be transformational for you. The birth of Jesus, the life of Jesus, the death of Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus teach us the dominant life value of God. Love. In so doing Jesus gives us what should be our dominant life value: “Love God. Love your neighbor.” This is what it means to follow Jesus. Easier said than done, especially when your dominant life value is something other than love. Be honest with yourself for a moment. What is your dominant life value? What do you need to change to make it love?
When you think about it, there is a profound difference in believing in Jesus and choosing to follow Jesus. When I am at my best, following Jesus has led me to experience a life of miracles! Everyday miracles… What about you?
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I find following Jesus one of the most exciting, intense, painfully joyful, experiences that I have ever begun.
I say begun, because it seems everyday I find myself with reasons to know longer trust in what I know, but trust in everything God has planned for me. When I do so your absolutely right there are everyday Miracles.
With miracles (seeing God work beyond my control) it opens my heart to properly place Him as my dominant life value.
I pray that our congregation will see that Christ as the dominant value makes everything else feel worthless.