Sep 23, 2021
Hey, it's Mike Henry with Follower of One. And I'm just going live today with a devotional to talk a little bit about knowing what we believe. Do you know the person you follow in Jesus Christ? Do we know him as well as we should? Our verse for today is just a fragment. Philippians 3:10 that I may know him.
That was Paul's goal, that we would know Jesus, that we would know him, the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. Knowing Jesus means that we know what He was about, and we understand His motives and His direction. We know what He would have us do and how He would have us live.
The more we study him, the more we know and it's limitless because He was God, there are no limits to what we can learn about Jesus, except the truth. We want to know the truth about him. That's part of the reason why we study the Bible. In the marketplace mission trip that we do in Follower of One, we talk about our third daily activity being that we would know what we believe.
Maybe it should better say that we would know who we believe. We need to know why it is we do the things we do. We want our relationship with Jesus to impact the way that we do our job, we want it to make a difference. I want my relationship with Jesus to make a difference in everything I do every day.
Now I confess there are days when I want some time off. I've asked God before to give me time off. I didn't want to be conformed to the image of Jesus today. I didn't want to have to live like a Christian today, but. When I take time off, I miss the joy of following Jesus. I miss the joy of doing what he says.
I miss the joy and the peace of walking with him and experiencing him. I want to enjoy my relationship with Jesus more, and therefore I need to know him better so that I can know how I should act in every circumstance. But the action of knowing what we believe on the marketplace, mission trip means.
That we practice having a one or two sentence answer. That explains why we got outside of our job description. Why did we go above and beyond to help someone else? Or, or why did we go the extra mile or give more than was expected of us? We want to live in such a way that people would ask us about why are you doing this?
And so we challenge ourselves. To have the answer ready. I want to challenge you today. Think about why you follow Jesus. Why do you follow Jesus? If you did a favor for someone and they asked you, "Why are you doing this?". Could you explain in one or two sentences that you did it because you follow Jesus and do it in a casual matter of fact way.
We want to challenge you today to practice thinking about why you follow Jesus. And then be able to articulate that in one or two sentences. That's our goal for knowing what we believe, which is the third daily activity on the marketplace mission trip. So practice that today and let's think about that as believers in the workplace, we want to be able to answer that question in a rational, simple way.
That doesn't offend anyone else that uses I/ME statements and explains why we act the way we do, because it's according to our beliefs. I want to challenge you today, think a little bit more about your faith and how it shows up in the workplace. And let's base that on. What we know about Jesus and grow our knowledge of Jesus at the same time.
Thank you for being a marketplace minister. And thank you for making a difference in your marketplace. If you'd like to know more about how to integrate your faith and work full-time, check out our website at followerofone.org, where you can learn more about the things that we teach and do, and you can also join us on our next marketplace mission trip.
Thanks very much.