Daybreak Devotions

"This world demands a life saturated with God, and this world is the perfect storm to prevent our soul from having it." - John Eldredge, from Get Your Life Back (2020)

Is there a simple and sustainable way that we can live our lives saturated with the life of God? It would be most helpful in a world increasingly calling us away from life with God and distracting us from the most essential way we were designed to live.

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⁠⁠⁠McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC⁠

"This world demands a life saturated with God, and this world is the perfect storm to prevent our soul from having it." - John Eldredge, from Get Your Life Back (2020)

Is there a simple and sustainable way that we can live our lives saturated with the life of God? It would be most helpful in a world increasingly calling us away from life with God and distracting us from the most essential way we were designed to live.

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⁠⁠McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

The attention of our heart is under constant assault. Our enemy knows that it cannot remove the good heart that has been given to us through Jesus, yet if it can be distracted, it is rendered ineffective. We must identify the ways that we are drawn to distraction, and intentionally "keep our hearts with all diligence."

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⁠McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Our heart, in Christ, is good. Yet, Jesus warns about all of the evil that can proceed out of the heart (Matthew 15:18-19). So, what are we to make of this? We must learn to live out of the good heart and let it lead as it is led by our Good Shepherd.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Dallas Willard calls the heart "the executive center of the self." It is where decisions are made, and it is from the heart the rest of the soul will follow. When we let the heart, filled with God and his word, lead us, we will find our life in the right path and our soul resilient.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

It is a neglected and avoided topic in many circles of the church, or perhaps it has just been forgotten, but the life of the heart is absolutely essential. To live life to its fullest, to know full freedom in Christ, to live with joy, peace, love, and hope as daily realities, we are going to have to learn what it means to live from the heart.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

No one lived from the heart more freely and truly than Jesus. We are called to this sort of amazing living, but we need to find our true identity in our relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

Jesus’ Obedience to God's Will (The Surrendered Life) is the result of his Confidence in his Identity (A Secure Soul), which came from his Relationship to the Father (The Son Beloved), and this drove his Loyalty to the Cause (The Steadfast Focus/Purpose). The linchpin to all of it, we believe, is the Identity which came from his truly devout and whole relationship with the Father. It may well be true that Christians are not living totally surrendered to God’s will, they are not steadfast in their focus, because they are missing that middle part, that secure identity.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

The very first words and the first scenes of Jesus' life which are recorded in the gospels give us this foundational truth about his devout and holy heart, he was completely given to doing his Father's will! Obedience, loyalty to the cause, which was so incredibly steadfast because it came from the security of his heart, a security he possessed through the deep relationship he had with God the Father. And guess what! We can have it too!

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC

To become more like Jesus we pray, we ask for the transformation of our heart and the renewing of our minds. We also turn our attention to him; he becomes the object of our beholding. There are many ways to do that, but certainly by meditating on the heart of Jesus as revealed in the gospels, we can be "changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18). Today we look at the compassionate heart of Jesus.

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McLeansville Baptist Church - McLeansville, NC