Reality

Pleasure is a good thing, a great thing. God wired us to enjoy relationships, laugh, and experience life to the fullest. All things are beautiful when experienced the way God intended. But in this fallen world, in this “life under the sun,” we can pervert pleasure into a god, using money, possessions, and experiences to fill our hearts.

Faith is made up of things that don’t always fit together. If it’s all packaged up nice and tight…it’s not faith…it’s a fact.

There is a blessing on the other side of sacrifice. So, here’s the question: What’s the sacrifice standing between you and God’s blessing?

It means we finally live fulfilled with a whole heart…filled with the One who always provides exactly what we need.

Can you believe in the promise of God to satisfy you without all the other stuff? Is there anything in your life you need to relent?

There will be times when he brings us to the point of choosing between him and something or someone else. There will be times when we must decide to get out of the way…or not.

When we set our hearts on seeing Jesus, nothing will hold us back.

The journey to Jesus is seldom free of obstacles. The reality with Jesus is not always a storybook life or a storybook ending. It is often tiring and messy. The believer is not free from disappointment, discouragement, or disillusionment. Sometimes the terrain is rugged and the paths steep.  But when we set our hearts on seeing Jesus, nothing will hold us back.