Looking Out 25.6.23

Taking ownership is accepting responsibility for your actions and ownership of outcomes. You take accountability for your ideas, tasks, decisions, objectives, and choices, in life. It is a commitment you make to follow through with something.

Jesus talked to those who would follow Him about taking up a cross, counting the cost, and giving up everything (Luke 14:25—33). “The way is hard that leads to life,” he said (Matthew 7:14, ESV). Scripture mentions many of God’s people who have walked that hard road—Daniel, Elijah, Joseph, and John the Baptist are just a few.

Living for God may be difficult, but it is not joyless. Paul wrote his most joyful letter while suffering persecution in Rome (see the book of Philippians). We will still face temptation and hardship, but when the glory of God is our focus, living for Him becomes the source of our joy rather than a drudgery.

Phillipins4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Sometimes leading a Christian life can be hard, committing to be Church can be hard, but we need, as people of God, to work for our church, its mission and the wider community. A few cannot do this alone, sometimes it takes many hands to do God’s work.

Philipians 4:13 “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”