Life is short for all of us. It’s shorter for some of us than others, and the length of our lives isn’t ours to determine. What we do get to determine every single day is what will matter most to us. And what matters more than anything is coming into alignment with the will and purposes and likeness of our good, loving, holy God.
When it comes to the prophecies that the Bible gives us about the future, there are absolutely zero that have to be fulfilled before Jesus can return. His coming back was as imminent and realistic a possibility for the people who walked with Jesus on this earth as they are for us today, twenty centuries later.
God wants to take you deeper today. Deeper into the reality of his goodness. Deeper into the recesses of your own heart where real, lasting healing needs to occur. Deeper into the solid soil of scriptural truth about who you are, how the world works, and God’s plan to redeem all things for his glory forever.
God has never been in a hurry the way we’re in a hurry. He started time. Someday he’ll stop time. He gave us time to be our measuring stick, not his. He can wait. Endlessly.
Love each other as much as Jesus loved you and the world will know you belong to him. His movement, back then and today as well, would be known as a movement of love.
The more we come to depend on an all-powerful God to show himself strong through our weakness, the more God will move among his people. Let’s pray as never before for God to expand the witness and influence of his church in this world! God, give us a breakthrough!
The more we come to depend on an all-powerful God to show himself strong through our weakness, the more God will move among his people. Let’s pray as never before for God to expand the witness and influence of his church in this world! God, give us a breakthrough!
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