Aimless: A 30-Day Journey with Jesus to Triumph over Blah and Fulfill Your Purpose: 4D Devotionals, #1

By Brian S. Holmes

Do you feel confused, lost, and stuck? In as little as 20 minutes a day for 30 days, you can triumph over your lack of direction, discover, and begin fulfilling your life purpose. Refuse to remain aimless!

 

AIMLESS is the first in a revolutionary new approach to a daily devotional, drawn from years of experience as a transformation expert and the most thought-provoking of his landmark book, The Empowered Christian Road Map: A Guide for Evangelicals - 8 Key Principles for Unswerving Faith, Laser-Focused Direction, and a Life Driven by Purpose and Action.

 

Through these short-yet-powerful daily lessons and journaling activities, you'll receive direct biblical truths, paradigm-shifting insights, increased intimacy with the Holy Spirit, and action steps to transform your life.

 

Life-changing yet shockingly convenient and easy to follow, this simple, step-by-step blueprint will unlock your understanding of the Christian life, spiritually energize your day, and ignite your purpose as a disciple of Jesus.

 

4D Devotionals Series is a collection of 30-day Christian devotionals, each with a unique theme. 4D stands for an emphasis on:

• Daily – Spending time in God's presence and developing your relationship
• Depth – Biblical, sermon-style lessons for theological education and truth
• Discipleship – Becoming like Jesus through spiritual transformation
• Drive – Mobilization through practical application and action steps

• Language: English
• Publisher: MPowered Christian Publishing
• Release date: Dec 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223262039

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Day 1 - Where Is Your Life Going?

Do you ever wake up in the morning and think to yourself, what am I doing with my life? Perhaps you’re so lost and confused just knowing you’re at least going in the right direction would be a huge help. This lesson you’ll learn what the Bible teaches about your current trajectory, the different options at the end of the road, and what you should do about it.

What Is Your Current Trajectory?

Perhaps the gurus tell you to forsake all attachment and desire and pursue oneness with the universe to be released from the cycles of reincarnation. Perhaps you’re following the way of Muhammad and hoping to be good enough on Judgment Day to go to Paradise. Hopefully you’ve already found Christianity, that would be good - because it’s the one true path!

What you believe about Jesus and what He wants from you matters a lot. Perhaps you were told God loves you just as you are and has a wonderful plan for your life? Perhaps you’ve heard a preacher say God just wants you to be happy, healthy, and wealthy? If you’re still living in sin, or like you exist to chase worldly pleasures, then you’re still on a dangerous trajectory.

Did you know most people believe they’re already a good person and they’re probably going to go to Heaven? Do you know what the Bible actually says? It says we’re all depraved sinners, and that if we don’t turn from our former sinful ways; putting our trust in Jesus’s divinity, death, burial, and resurrection; and live a Spirit-led life of obedience and righteousness with Him as Lord, we won’t.

It describes the fallen state of all humans before they’re born again like this in Ephesians 2:1-3:

You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world… All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

By children of wrath it means that we’re literally born in a cursed state so that the way of evil seems good, right, and tempting to us. God’s law doesn’t make us good—it’s necessary just to help restrain our naturally evil desires. We are therefore under God’s judgment and wrath.

Jesus acknowledges the inherent evil desires of humanity all while telling us to obey God’s law. He said in Matthew 7:13-14:

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

But, because we’re evil, He goes on to let us know that it is not by our obedience to Jewish law alone:

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Knowing that it’s narrow should motivate us to strive toward the highest possible moral standards and why we need a Savior regardless.

There Are Only Two Destinations

There’s the wide path that leads to eternal destruction, torment, and shame, and the narrow path that leads to eternal life, glory, and honor. In Romans 2:3-8 Paul says,

Do you think you will escape God’s judgment? Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God will repay each person according to what they have done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

The Bible always connects both faith in Jesus, a desire for lasting righteousness, and a pursuit of righteousness with life itself. In John 5:22-29 Jesus said,

The Father… entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father… whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life… a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

The Way To Change Eternal Directions

In John 14:6 Jesus said,

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

In John 3:36 He also said,

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

In Ephesians 2:7-9 it says that the reason we’re saved by faith in Jesus is so that God could,

Show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.

There are so-called Christians who may have belief in Jesus but not a faith that saves them because they have no desire for righteousness. In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus said,

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

It’s not about belief in Jesus alone, but knowing Him and being known by Him, because if you desire this you’ll be born again by the Holy Spirit to do the will of the Father.

We’re saved by God’s grace alone, received by repentance and faith alone, in Christ alone, but not by possessing a faith that is alone. Your good works won’t make you good enough or save you but they are evidence of the right kind of faith. Saving faith is evidenced by good works, obedience to God’s moral law, righteousness, holiness, love of God and neighbor, and Christ’s commands to love one another, preach the gospel and make