Month: December 2021

The Game of Life Day 115

Navigating Life’s Highway: Defined

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED. “BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.” Romans 4:7-8

Forgiven people are free to be happy, really happy, with the people they meet, the path they are on, and the purpose they live for in this life. For blessed people, pleasure isn’t a tool to deal with the pain. Blessed people are free to be in the moment, on the mission, and mindful of others along the way. That’s their pleasure. They make for great company on this highway of life. But forgiveness comes by faith in the One that really matters from the one that really matters. We need His forgiveness that comes from faith in His word and His work on the cross. The Bible says these people are blessed. This is where we start living by faith.

The Game of Life             Day 114

Navigating Life’s Highway:  Defined

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, ⁶ just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.                     Romans 4:5-7

Forgiveness is the key to every other thing in this life.  That sounds strange but it’s true.  All of us have forever but what we all need is forgiveness.  Forgiveness determines where we will live forever.  We receive forgiveness by faith in God’s word and work.  It’s disturbing how our memories of past actions and accidents cancel our confidence in life.  We don’t want to live or drive through this life in fear, failure, or fantasy.  It all starts with believing God for forgiveness.  God credits those who believe as innocent and right.  With that confidence, we can live in God’s blessing.

The Game of Life             Day 113

Navigating Life’s Highway:    Defined By Our Driving

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? ² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. ³ For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”                      Romans 4:1-3

We, because of sin, find ourselves living by works to work out how we live.  It’s really manipulation and manipulation is all the devil left Adam with following his disbelief and disobedience.  Living by works, rather than faith, is living by manipulation so that we can manipulate how we live.  God is not a man that He should live (Numbers 23:19).  God doesn’t work in manipulation and neither do His people.  Faith believes it doesn’t deceive.  Faith has fruit but it doesn’t work to produce it.

The Game of Life             Day 112

Navigating Life’s Highway;    Defined by Your Driving

For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

Romans 4:3

Being precedes doing!  And what we believe determines what we will be and what we will be determines how we will behave.  We can’t hide.  Jesus said that a tree is known by its’ fruit.  Abraham was defined by his faith.  His faith determined how he drove through this life and that’s what faith does.  We don’t just look to faith when are in a place of need.  We live out what we really believe in and that is what we see on life’s highway.  Believe God; don’t just believe in God.  Faith comes by hearing what we believe to be true and driving finds out what we have faith in.

The Game of Life:  Day 111

Navigating Life’s Highway:  Defined by Your Driving

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? ² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. ³ For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS Romans 4:1-3

On this highway of life, we are all defined by our driving or living.  And it’s not about being somewhere on Sundays but being someone every day.  Abraham was defined by God and man by his faith.  Abraham believed God; he didn’t just believe in God.  Abraham was someone who went somewhere, he didn’t show up somewhere so that they thought he was someone.  Abraham owned his faith and it influenced the way he lived.  When we become someone who believes God we can live by faith, not fear, foolishness, fantasy, failure or frustration.  All those things show up in the way we drive down this highway.

The Game of Life  Day 110

Navigating Life’s Highway:  Fuel

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “ BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. Romans 1:16-17

The righteous man shall LIVE!  There it is, the promise of God that the righteous man of faith will LIVE and he will LIVE by faith.  It’s faith in God that fuels the heart and life of the believer.  We not only believe in God, we believe God and do life His way.  Life is on the other side of God’s love for us.  This is the gospel of grace.  Jesus doesn’t save us to die but to live.  Death is what we bring into the equation through fear.  Fan the flame of your faith and live in the grace of God every day along the way.

The Game of Life  Day 109

Navigating Life’s Highway:    Fuel

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “ BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. Romans 1:16-17

The more we know the further we go in this life.  We know the right way to think, talk, turn, and travel as God reveals His truth to us.  God will reveal His person, passion, power, and plans for us as we live by faith.  God will keep us moving through the woods, the wild, and over the wonders of life as we live by faith in His great love for us.  Many will stop as they stop living and looking by faith.   The way we think about life will determine the way we live this life.  Don’t ever stop; God has more than we can even imagine.

The Game of Life  Day 109

Navigating Life’s Highway:  Fuel

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “ BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.                                                 Romans 1:16-17

Grace is the love of God that becomes the power of life for those who believe.  Grace is what God does and faith is what we do.  God doesn’t have to live by faith, we do.   And by faith, we put ourselves in a place to witness and walk in the love of God.  God’s love working in and through us gives us the fuel, the power to live this life.  When loves wanes, life weakens on every level.  God loves us and He has opened heaven’s door to all who believe through the sacrifice of love on the cross for us.  Live loved! 

The Game of Life:  Day 107

Navigating Life’s Highway:  The Fuel of God’s Grace

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “ BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.                 Romans 1:16-17

The gospel is the good news of God’s undeserved and unreserved love for us who believe.  It is “love” that motivates and moves us along life’s highway.  The love of God will motivate and move us in and through this life, as nothing else can.  Love is pure fuel to be burned in the heart of the believer.  Shame is life bad or dirty fuel that will cause us to sputter and stop short of our destination.  The good news is that God loves us, always has and always will and those who believe in that love live on that love. 

The Game of Life:  Day 106

Navigating Life’s Highway:  Grace

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “ BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.                 Romans 1:16-17

Our fuel for this journey is found in our faith for this journey.  This life that God gives us is lived by faith in God who gave it.  The gospel is the good news of God’s grace for those who have faith.   Grace is what God does and faith is what we do.  The gospel of grace is the good news of God’s undeserved and unreserved love for us who believe.  We find the fuel, the mojo we need for this life in the love God has for us.  Live by faith in that love today and every day and you will never run out of fuel along the way.