Four Ways to Know if Jesus is Your True Obsession and Passion

Jesus is to be the obsession and focus of a Christian’s life. Yet how do we discover what we are truly obsessed with?

In this episode, we discover:

• the four indicators that reveal what we are obsessed with in our lives
• why it is imperative that Jesus is our sole obsession
• and the definition of idolatry (looking to anyone or anything besides Jesus to meet my needs)

Simply, if Jesus isn’t our obsession, then we will be distracted with something—for God made us to be obsessed. The question really is … what am I obsessed with?

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4 Ways to Identify Your Obsession

1. Calendar (time)
2. Conversation (what you talk about)
3. Credit card / Cash (money)
4. Contemplate (what do you think about when you have a spare moment)

Everyone has an obsession

As Oswald Chambers wrote …

Are you obsessed by something? You will probably say, “No, by nothing,” but all of us are obsessed by something— usually by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our own experience of the Christian life. But the psalmist says that we are to be obsessed by God. The abiding awareness of the Christian life is to be God Himself, not just thoughts about Him. The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God. … we are to “live and move and have our being” in God (Acts 17:28), looking at everything in relation to Him, because our abiding awareness of Him continually pushes itself to the forefront of our lives. If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives— not concerns, nor tribulation, nor worries. And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy. ⁽¹⁾

Jesus is to be your obsession

• Idolatry is looking to anyone or anything besides Jesus to meet my needs.
• Jesus must be my obsession
• Colossians 1:18 – … so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3 – But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be corrupted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

How to grow your obsession with Jesus

1. Pursue (seek) Him

• Hebrews 11:6 – And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who draws near to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who [diligently] seek Him.

2. Give your time, attention, and thoughts to Him

• Psalm 1:2 – But his delight is in the law of Yahweh, And in His law he meditates day and night.

3. Obedience in small things

• John 14:15 – “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

FOOTNOTES

(1) Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (June 2)

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Question: What is your true obsession? Is it Jesus? How does your money, time, conversation, and thinking reveal Jesus as your obsession?

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