Jesus Calling Sept 16th

Lose My Soul - TobyMac

Mark 8:34-37 (MSG)

Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?

We are one with God. He makes us whole. He makes us the real us. He completes us. He makes us who we really are. Without Him, you have a hole inside you, there is an empty place. You might get what you want, but you will lose what matters most. Let God fulfill you. Walk closely with Him. He will lead you where you need to go. It might feel uncomfortable or scary, but just trust Him. If you just follow and trust with all your heart, then you will go places you've never gone before. He knows us better than we know ourselves. When we stay with Him, in our completeness, we become more of what He made us to be.

Psalm 139:13-16 (MSG)

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;

    you formed me in my mother’s womb.

I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!

    Body and soul, I am marvelously made!

    I worship in adoration—what a creation!

You know me inside and out,

    you know every bone in my body;

You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,

    how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;

    all the stages of my life were spread out before you,

The days of my life all prepared

    before I’d even lived one day.

2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (MSG)

Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.