Heartfelt Meditations

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Chapter One

The first section of Heartfelt Meditations, Come Follow Me, looks at a diverse selection of scriptures that can illustrate for followers of Christ how we should seek after our Lord and Savior. Also how we are to live our lives in Christ and that how we are to grow and mature in Christ, that we might as followers, understand the way to walk and follow after Christ so that we may be able to, and strive to become more Christlike. For this is what we are called to do in everything we do and in every aspect of our walk with Christ as His followers.

    To Follow Me

    In following You I must deny myself
      If any person: wants to seek after Me and seek My face,
            wants to come to know Me,
            longs and thirsts for Me.
      You must put Me first in your life:
        give up things of this world and things
        that are of you,
        put aside things that matter to you,
        acknowledge other and put them above you.
      You must focus on things that are of God.

    I must take up my cross
      I must do whatever is asked of me; the task You ask of me:
      may not be easy, or not fun, or something I do not like;
      I may not wish or want to do it or know,
      it is what You would have me do and for my
      life - I must take up the task at hand -
      this a choice for me to make daily.
      I will do Your will and shall take up my cross up every
      day and I shall walk with You daily all throughout my life.

    and follow You
        I should follow You: wherever and whenever You lead,
            in whatever You ask of me,
            it does not matter how or why,
            and no matter what I will,
            all the days of my life.

    Saving my life is to lose it
      On earth if I: wish to do my will,
            choose to follow my own way,
            am worried about preserving and
          protecting myself,
      I will lose my eternal life.

    In losing my life for You, my life will be preserved in heaven
      On earth if I: wish to do my Father's will,
            choose to follow You and Your ways,
            am concerned about saving others and
            seeing "My kingdom come" and be fulfilled,
            I will have gained my eternal life.

    For at what cost should I gain the world if to just lose myself
      What is there in having everything if I lose everything?
      What is worthy of obtaining on earth that I would die for?
      Why should I settle for so much less when I can have
      everything?
      What is the value in losing myself while trying to gain
      the world?

    To be embarrassed of You and Your words
      For if any person: rejects or denies You,
            does not acknowledge You,
           ignores Your words,
           rebukes or disputes Your words,
           does not take heed or adheres to
           Your words.
      For when the Son of Man in all of His and His Father's glory
      comes with the holy angels, for He shall also be ashamed of
      him.

      When I come I will:
            not accept or admit those who rejected and
           denied Me,
            not recognize who did not acknowledge Me,
            not lift up who would not listen to My words,
           not substantiate to those who rebuke and dispute
            My words,
            not tolerate those who did not embrace Me
            and My words.
      When I come, it will be in My glorified state and with My
      Father and all of His holy host of angels.

           Inspired by Luke 9:23 – 27
           (NKJV)


    Do Not Look Back

    The words of my Lord
      My Master was speaking,
      I should always pay attention when He speaks.
      I should always listen to my Master's words.

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