You Only Live Twice
A strange thing happened during Youth Week this year. In the middle of a rained out lake party, dodge ball, Hard Rock Café, Ocean’s Thirteen, Wet ‘n Wild, Wii, Guitar Hero, Clue, SAK Comedy Lab, Starkey Ranch, and Weeki Wachee Springs, a spiritual theme broke out. During the mystery trip people in our group wrote down how they would choose to die to themselves and live for God - our Christ-like mission. Here is what some of them wrote:
- I must think less of my needs to see God’s grace in others.
- In dying to myself, may I become what my sinful nature keeps me from becoming - a man of God to all, regardless of my like or dislike of that person.
- Try harder in school to please my parents.
- Attend church more and pay more attention during church.
- To be quite a bit more open minded.
- I just wish I could be the most dedicated to good.
- Honor my parents; be careful with my relationships; love more fully.
- I need to give up being mean to people and start giving more compliments than insults.
- My attitude towards others.
- To give up messing around or playing with my friends; to spend more time with my mom.
- I would need to spend an entire day, week, month, year helping random people in their lives. While doing this I would need to completely open myself up and judge no one.
So, how are you doing with that mission? What would you write? Meditate on the scripture below and write how you plan to die to yourself so that you can only live twice.
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
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