Connections - Who's Your First?

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My message to you is It Is WHO You Know that matters in life!

There is a very important fact in life for those of us who want to make their lives better.  We have seen this to be true time and time again.  That fact:  

YOU CAN'T DO IT BY YOURSELF!

While you are responsible for making the decision and taking the steps towards a better you in 2011, a better you next month, a better you tomorrow,  you can't do it by yourself.  It is going to take connections to make it happen.  

That's what this series is about.  Making the connections to become everything you are designed to be.    You know this come straight from scripture.  As human beings we are designed to be social.  To have relationships.  To depend on one another.  

Today I want to talk a little about the first connection we need.  Where do we start?   I think we start with our connection to God.   The John 14:6 tells us that our first connection is to be Jesus - he is the way, the truth and the life.    

This first connection carries with it amazing benefits. If you are connected to Jesus, then everything God has is available to you (see Gal 4:7)  If you are connected to Jesus then every need will be met (Phil. 4:19).  If you are connected to Jesus, then you will receive the priceless inheritance (1 Peter 1:4)!    And there is more - IF you are connected to Jesus.  

SO THEN, THE QUESTION OF THE DAY IS:  HOW DO I GET CONNECTED TO JESUS?

Look at Matthew 9:9-13.  Jesus comes by Matthew's tax collecting booth.  Looks at him and says - "follow me."  Jesus words while important aren't what we need to see.   The words we need to see tell us what Matthew did:  "And he got up and followed him."   That is how you get connected to Jesus - you follow him.  And you follow him like in the child's game - Follow the Leader - you go where Jesus leads, you do what Jesus does.   You talk to him, you listen to him, you follow him.  

One of the coolest things about this is that Jesus never forces the issue.  Nothing made Matthew get up and go.  Nothing makes you go.  It is your choice and your choice alone to make this connection and to make 2011 better than 2010.  

Let me ask this question?  Are you connected?

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