Controlled by Love

2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NASB

“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; ¹⁵ and He died for all, so that those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose on their behalf. ¹⁶ Therefore from now on we recognize no one by the flesh; even though we have known Christ by the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”

Would you like to follow Jesus? This is how it begins: 

• Faith: Matthew 21:32: The taxpayers and sinners believed John, and now they were believing in Jesus. Today, all must believe that Jesus is who John says He was and is, the Son of God and the “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29)
• Repent: Matthew 4:17: Jesus began preaching, repent, 
• Confess: Matthew 10: 32: “If you confess me before people, I will confess you before my Father in heaven.”
• Baptized: Matthew 28:19: You must be baptized. 
• Continue: Matthew 28:20, Acts 2:42: You must continue in the Apostles teachings.

SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR YOUR DAILY MEDITATION

Select a block of 30 minutes each day for your Meditation with God.

1. Pray to begin your meditation.
2. Read and ask general questions about the passage for your own life: (a) What is God telling me?  (b) How does God want me to respond to this reading? 
3. Reflect on your life through this passage: (a) Think about your blessings. (b) Think about your journey with God: past, present and future.
4. Memorize and repeat a word, a phrase, a sentence or verse. 
5. Pray through the passage, or about your thoughts from the passage: (a) Praise God (b) Give thanks (c) Confess your sins (d) Repent of your sins.

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