A Life Worth Living by David Jeremiah

Tuesday, April 17 A Life Worth Living    The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” John 1:43    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is credited with observing that life is not worth living until you find something worth dying for. When Jesus called His first disciples in the region of Galilee, they followed Him without knowing very much about Him. But they would all die for Him eventually. Between their calling and their death, they discovered that Jesus was worth living and dying for.

Recommended Reading: Luke 14:26-27

The Christian life begins with a profession of faith, a willingness to follow Jesus. The longer we follow Him, the more we leave our old self behind. We “put off the old man with his deeds” (Colossians 3:9) and “put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). When we see the old man fading in our memory and the new man becoming the reality of our lives, we realize what following Christ has done. Following Christ changes our lives.    Are you following Christ? If so, is your life changing? Look for markers today that the old is being replaced by the new.    The stamp of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. C. S. Lewis