It All Starts w/ God

For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank of angels - everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him. COLOSSIANS 1:16

It is God who directs the lives of His creatures; everyone’s life is in His power. JOB 12:10

Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. ROMANS 8:6

Jesus said, “Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.” MATTHEW 16:25

God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of His purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest-what God determined as the way to bring out His best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. 1 Corinthians 2:7

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had is eyes on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone. EPHESIANS 1:11
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