Heart, Mind and Soul

What is it like to follow Jesus with everything you are?  To give Him your heart, mind and soul?  To seek Him with all your strength?

Pretty much how it sounds.  You are consumed by Him.  Your first thought in the morning is Him, your last thought at night is Him, everything you do in between is about Him and you dream about Him.  Sound extreme?  It is.  And it should be.

If you are going to be obsessed with or addicted to anything, it should be Jesus.  This life we are living right now is a blip on the radar of eternity.  This life and this world are only a little bit of each of our story.  After this is the rest of forever and there are two options.  Spend it with God or don't.  The second option is going to be really unpleasant.  All sorts of pain and suffering and gnashing of teeth, because it will be away from God.

If you have ever thought this life was rough, it will seem like roses compared to a life of forever away from the One Who Created you.

What does that have to do with being obsessed with Jesus?  Believing in Him is the only way anyone gets option one, spending eternity with God.  He is the only way to avoid option two.

When we believe that Jesus was sent to save us from hell, it is really hard not to become obsessed with Him.  That is an incredible gift.  But that is not all He offers.  Through His spirit, He can offer us comfort while we are waiting for this life to end and the real one to begin.  He can begin to transform all the broken parts of us into glorious ones.

If you are reading this, chances are, He has 'flicked on your switch'.  He has woken up your spirit to realize there is more to life than what you can see.  So you need to ask Him to complete the deal.  Give Him permission to come into your life and start comforting and transforming you and healing you and helping you.  It is easy.

Jesus, I know that I have been separated from You and God the Father.  I don't want to be separated from either of You anymore.  I am sorry that I have been separated from You.  Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and pour new life into me.  I want to spend eternity with You, not separated from You.  I give You permission to work in my life.  I want to be obsessed with and addicted to You and only You.  Help me to do that, because I know I can't do it myself.

And now you can thank Him.  You surround yourself with people who also follow Jesus.  You listen to music that glorifies Him, you read books that teach you about Him, you ask Him to make the Bible come alive to you.  He will set you on fire with passion for Him, but you have to ASK.  And you have to BELIEVE.  One of the many cool things about Jesus is that you can even ask Him for that.  Ask Him to help you believe in Him and have passion for Him.

And then set your eyes on Him.  And remember He is at the right hand of the throne of God.  So when your eyes are set on Jesus, you are actually staring directly into heaven.  And when you are staring directly into heaven, you realize that this world is not the reality.  Ask Him to help you focus on reality, which is not this life but the next.  And when He settles that in your heart, you will be completely overtaken.  It is truly the best place to be.  Looking forward to the next place and working with Him to tell others about it.

And then you and He will have done it together, you will have committed heart, mind and soul to something so much bigger than what you are in right now and you won't remember anything different and you won't want anything different anyway.  Committed, heart, mind and soul.  It really is that easy.  Just ask.