Jesus, Continued…

God has more invested in your life than even you do. He purchased you with his blood, the universe’s most precious commodity, worth infinitely more than anything you or I have ever spent on ourselves. I love that thought. He’s saved me for his purposes, which are far more important than my own; at the cost of his blood, which is far more than anyth

I read those verses like a contract. If I do my part (“in all my ways acknowledge him,” which means availing myself of every means he has given me for discerning his purposes), then he will do his part (“direct my paths”). Much of the stress we feel about discerning the will of God comes from assuming we are responsible for both sides of this contr

Jesus claimed that having the Holy Spirit in them would be better than having him beside them. Wow.

How about you? Has the mission of God translated into a specific vision for your life? Do you, like Paul, have a personal ministry ambition? Through his Spirit, God invites you to join the purposes for which he has created you specifically (Eph. 2:10). When you grasp this, the Great Commission becomes a focused burden for some person or group of pe

In the same way, God will not ask us all to make the same level of sacrifice. Sometimes I look at the assignments given to other people and say, “Lord, am I inferior? In this season I’m not being asked to sacrifice like them.” I’ve never had to watch my family be fed to the lions. If God asks that of me one day, I hope I will endure it faithfully.

God doesn’t need you! Never has. Never will. For anything. Ever. It turns out that I had vastly overestimated what I had to contribute. I didn’t have “more” I needed to give; I actually had nothing God needed to begin with. Nothing. God is not now looking, nor has he ever looked, for “helpers” to assist him in saving the world. That doesn’t mean he

I would encourage you to hold loosely what you think God is saying to you. God simply did not outline for us a definitive way to know with absolutely certainty that he is moving in our spirits about something.

It was a life-transforming realization for me: I find out what God is doing and join him in it, not do it for him. The Holy Spirit works through me; I do not work for him.

To look backward when they should have looked forward was not sacred; it was sinful and unbelieving.