As a new fall begins, new things begin to take shape.  I said a tearful goodbye to my son Caleb this weekend as he goes to join my daughter Jenna in her final year of college.  He begins a new season as a college student, and she finishes up.  Just across the city, my daughter Jayci gets up to go take care of children in he Phoenix Children’s Hospital ER.

In my family, in every family, we walk into new seasons and say goodbye to our old ways.

These are not always easy transitions.

But as we enter into them, I remind all of us:

Our Worldview Sets Our Actions In Motion

Who we are, and more importantly, what we believe, begins to define us.

What do we believe?

As Christians, we must never stray far from the foundation that God has laid down for us.

Who are we?

In watching Lee Strobel’s amazing film, The Case For Heaven, he sure compels us to think about this very issue.  Here are a few of my thoughts:

  1.  We are spiritual beings in a physical body
  2.  We are NOT the center of the universe
  3.  Our life is a (reference to Rick Warren):
    1. Trust
    2. Test
    3. Temporary Assignment

We are only here (on earth) for a short time.  And though we can become obsessed with the physical world, it is not this kingdom that we are trying to conquer.  Our kingdom is a spiritual one, and He is a spiritual King.  Jesus came to our physical world TO BE BROKEN and bought us at a price, and He gives us a chance to walk out our spiritual beliefs in a physical, and tangible, way.  He sealed our eternity.  He cut the head off the enemy, He took away the end of our lives, and He gave us a chance to be forgiven for EVERY ONE of our bad thoughts and actions.   He gives us a chance to bring His Kingdom into ours … to share our incredible secret (knowing Him) with all we know.

Remembering that we are not trying to conquer a kingdom that we can never keep is crucial to our lives.

So, if you are walking into a new season like I am, or if you are caught in the same old rut, I remind you:

  • We are broken because of our free will
  • We are redeemed by a choice
  • We will either surrender willingly to a God who loves us, or we will surrender to an entity that hates us and everyone we love.

Paul gives us words that we do not have to bring the “same old garbage of the physical world” into our steps as we walk forward.

Romans 8 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8 is an incredible chapter.  It is worth reading again and again.  We are truly free from the world if we choose that path.  And choosing that path will be tested … every single day of our lives.

It is worth the fight.

He is worthy our devotion.

Worship Him this morning in spirit and in truth.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J