OUR GOD || Week 9

It’s holiday movie time. Remember “ It’s a Wonderful Life?” George Bailey felt he was trapped in a life of futility...He wanted to chase fortune and fame so that he could one day be somebody. It took a heard death experience, his family and an angelic visitation to show him that he was rich then he could imagine. It’s a familiar plot line isn’t it?

For the last ten weeks we have been talking about the pursuit of God, but in that pursuit we have to work from the starting point or it can be exhausting and discouraging. The message of the cross is that God the Father sent his Son to die so that we could know him as our Father. His intent was for that ongoing relationship with him to shape our true identity, to heal our earth and family wounds, to redeem our past, empower our present and assure our future. That should change everything! That’s it. That is the central message of the Gospel. Change is possible because of God in us, the hope of glory. We are incredibly wealthy but we may not realize it.