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opportunities within their grasp. Something is bound to give way. Very soon they will face a conflict of interests. Dear reader, please be careful not to live like that. Be singleminded. Let your loyalties be focussed on just one main pursuit in life. Be like the Apostle Paul who said: . . . this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil 3:13–14). Paul was a “one-thing person.” King David was also a “one-thing” person, because he wrote in Psalm 27:4, One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. Decide that from this day onward you will subordinate all things in your life to just one thing you want to accomplish: following Christ. Remember what Jesus said in Luke 9:23, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Once again, a person may say, “This is too hard for me to do. How can you ask me to give up so many other things in life that I want to pursue as well?” And once again the answer is the same: love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul and all your mind. If you love Him fully, everything else will fade away in importance. You will then make Him your one and only, single-minded pursuit in life. If God has spoken to your heart today, don’t just think about it. Act upon it. Be bold to take the right steps now. Respond to these things by seeking to do God’s will rather than your own will. There is just one more thing 86 A Consecrated Life
that we want to observe in the passage. You may have noticed that the names of the three men are not given in the Bible at all. They remain anonymous and unknown, not like other disciples of Christ whose names are given: Peter, Andrew, James and John. Why are their names not found in God’s Word? Because they probably ended up not following Christ and doing the will of God after this. This is a very sad thing, because all three of them started out very well. Each of them had good potential to become committed disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. But what about you? Will you end up becoming a committed disciple of Christ? Or will you end up like these three men who remained unknown? What are you going to do with your life? Commitment to Do the Will of God 87
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Foreword A Consecrated Life—Roman
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God rather than our bodies? After a
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elong to him. He has to bear the lo
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from now on. It means living only t
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are afraid of embarrassment, and of
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Chapter 2 The Motivation for Consec
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people, but being mocked, insulted
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cross, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthan
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how can it ever be possible to feel
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suggested. It was done by the Roman
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permission to give Jesus a proper b
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Truly we must be greatly amazed tha
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was a church leader named Stephen.
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I. Busy in Doing Whatever the Lord
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Page 75 and 76: To Be Like Him What can it mean to
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