Blog Update

This week we will be a launching a more regular scheduled posting. This is in connection with the "weekly impact cards" for our ministry team and participants. Each week a post will be published to encourage, challenge and point people to Jesus. They will be written by our sports team and volunteer staff. I trust they are an encouragement to you as well.

Thanks for your support of Sports Impact.

tim

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Gospel of John

“Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.’”

John 6:35

Last week we learned that through serving others, God allows us to be filled up by Jesus himself. The verse above talks about hunger and thirst but not in the physical sense. Instead Jesus is addressing our desires.

I heard a quote a few weeks ago that really got me thinking. It roughly said, “Love, and do what you want.” It got me thinking about the freedom that God gives to believers as long as we love him. If we put God first in our lives and love him more than anything else than the decisions that we make will reflect what God truly desires. If I could choose just one rule to live by my entire life, I think it would be just that, love God first and foremost. As long as I continue to put Him first in my life I can be fully confident in the decisions that I make.

I read a book called “Just do Something” when I graduated from school and the main theme from the book was discovering the vast freedom that Jesus gives us as long as we put him first in our lives. Jesus promises to be the only one that will fulfill our needs no matter what profession we have, whether we are married, or how much money we make. What we do is less important than why we are doing it and to who’s glory we are doing it.

Our challenge this week is to focus on why we do anything and how we can start loving God first always. Thanks once again for reading this week and enjoy this challenge as we seek to grow together.

-Matt