In David Platt's book Follow Me, he clearly shows what it truly means to follow Christ. It is not about praying a prayer, reciting something when you were a kid, or a one time conversion. Following Christ is about dying to ourselves daily. Jesus says in Luke 9:23, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." As Christians, we are to die to our sins, idols, selfish pursuits of worldly things, sexual images in movies and online.
This call to die is not some type of simple belief but a daily repentance. It is daily repenting of our sins and dying to the cross of Christ. We are to surrender to Jesus and his will for our life. The call to die should be about Jesus' will for our life not our will for our life. Sometimes we get caught up in what is our will in this but we should be looking to what is God's will in this.
This process of following Christ is a continual dying to ourselves. I will get into this process more on more blog posts. Lord lead us how to die to ourselves more daily.
