The one question that each of needs to ask ourselves is, "How do we operationally define the Lordship of Christ in our lives?" Plainly speaking, is Jesus actually lording our lives, or are we spiritual vampires, who have gladly taken a little of His blood, but meanwhile are telling Him, thanks but I can handle it from here, see you in heaven. In the lives of today's "believers" the focus of our spiritual lives has blurred, it has become focused on the benefits of belief, instead of the one whom we believe in, Jesus. Jesus says in Luke 6:46 "You call me Lord, Lord and do not do what I say." My question simply is, how can we begin to do what He says, if we decide not devote our lives to Him, and learn from Him, how to be like Him? We have to make a decision in our lives, a very poignant, and critical decision, are we going to be disciples of the Jesus, or are we going to be spiritual lepers, constantly roaming on the boundary of His kingdom? Listen to a man named Paul, formerly called Saul, in his letter to the 1st century church in Philippi "More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,.." This is a man who defined the lordship of Christ in his life, as the sole purpose of his existence. He had lost everything the world deemed important, but had gained the only thing of importance, Jesus. He had been beaten numerous times, left for dead, shipwrecked and snake bitten, and had become an outcast of his own people, yet deemed living under the lordship of Christ, and as a citizen of the kingdom as the one thing of surpassing value in his life. Can we say that in our lives? Are we willing to lose all, to gain Christ? How do we operationally define the lordship of Christ in our lives? As disciples we should define the lordship of Christ in our lives, as our life. Our lives should be devoted to being with Him, learning to be like Him.