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When was the last time you considered just how loved you are by the Lord God Omnipotent? Well, today I offer a word of unimaginable comfort: Look up . . . your God is looking down upon you at this very moment.

From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth—he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. . . .The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

(Psalm 33:13-15, 18-19)

If this passage doesn’t light the fire of your faith . . . your wood is wet! God is looking down from heaven, mindful of all mankind. This truth tells us that God is attending to both our spiritual and physical needs. God meets us in our place of need, moment by moment. He knows the number of hairs on our head and knows exactly what we need, when we need it, and how we need it to be given to us.

To be sure, we do not know the distance from heaven to earth. But one thing we do know: we know we are loved on, led on, and looked on from on high. Not a moment goes by where God is not upholding us with His amazing grace.

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

(Isaiah 41:10)

One thing we must remember is the fact that God is looking down on us . . . even when we are not looking up at Him. When we are looking hither, thither, and yon at a thousand things smaller than God, He never takes His eyes off of us. When we are thinking about a thousand things other than God, He never stops thinking about us. When we are desperately desiring a thousand things lesser than God, He never stops desiring us. What a wonderful truth of comfort that is for us today! God is totally for us . . . even when we are not partly focused on Him!

The Bible is full of stories that confirm that truth. Abraham stopped looking up for a moment when He tried to pass off his wife to Pharaoh as his sister in order to save his skin, yet God never turned His gaze away from His fearful servant. Moses stopped looking up for a moment when he struck the rock in the wilderness after God instructed him to simply speak to it, yet God never turned His gaze away from His faithless servant. Peter stopped looking up for a moment on the night Jesus was betrayed. Terrified by the questioning of a lowly servant girl, Peter denied his Lord, yet God never turned His gaze away from His foolish, fearful servant. In fact, Jesus stared right at him!

The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.”

(Luke 22:61)

I cannot find any condemnation in this look from Jesus. Rather, it is a look of compassion and comfort for a hurting and convicted disciple. This, of course, is proven on the beach after the Christ’s resurrection, when He restored Peter with His question, “Peter do you love me?” Not once did our Lord ask, but three times, making abundantly clear to Peter that his three denials had all been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb.

If you will remember that God is continually looking down upon you from on High, you will spend more time looking up at Him.

So . . . what have you been looking at lately? What captures your attention and your affection? If it is anything smaller than God, it will always let you down.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

Those of us who came to faith in Christ later in life remember well the change that took place in our hearts. Please understand that I am not talking about a change that led us to a life of perfection; rather, I am talking about a change that led us in a new direction, a divine direction that was paved for us by the sinless life, sacrificial death, and supernatural resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, with Jesus on the throne of our lives, for the very first time we had . . .

• New desires
• New goals
• New visions
• New plans
• New thoughts
• New agendas
• New purposes
• New meaning
• New significance
• New love

The list, of course, could go on for several pages. The apostle Paul exulted that:

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

(2 Corinthians 5:17)

Truly, nothing compares to the very first time we were captivated by the mercy, grace, and love of God in Christ Jesus. To be fully forgiven and unconditionally loved was to experience something like the weight of the world lifting off of our shoulders. We were running on all cylinders, making our way through life with freedom, joy, and faithfulness to Jesus.

But, as all too often happens, we have on occasion lost that loving feeling!

Life seems to get in the way of our love for Jesus. We remove Jesus from the throne of our lives and begin living for self rather than the Savior. We drift back into our own plans and purposes, our dreams and desires, and before we know it we find ourselves once again living for something much, much smaller than Jesus. Often it takes a storm to send us reeling back to our Savior, so that we can once again plant our feet firmly on the Rock of Ages.

Regardless of where this message finds you today, the goal of the Christian life is to keep Christ at the center. May it never be said of us what was said about the church at Ephesus: “You have lost your first love” (Revelation 2:4).

When we find ourselves drifting in the wrong direction, there are two things we must do: repent and return to our Redeemer. The life of the disciple of Christ is marked by repentance and returning. When we realize that we have left our first love, we are to cry out to Jesus with a heart filled with a godly sorrow and return Him to His rightful place—at the center of our lives—looking once again, to the Author and Finisher (Hebrews 12:2 NKJV) of our faith, who has promised to complete in us what He began (Philippians 1:6).

Some Christians who realize that they have drifted badly are afraid to turn back to God. They think things like, “I’ve blown it! How could He possibly want anything more to do with me? I’ll just go back to my old life.” When you stop to think about it, this reasoning is just as silly as Adam hiding from God in the Garden or Jonah running away from God by taking the ship to Tarshish. Recall the words of King David:

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

(Psalm 139:7-8 NKJV)

God knows you’ve blown it . . . he knows where you are . . . He is there with you . . . and His message to you is this: “I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you” (Isaiah 44:22). In Jesus Christ is all the love and forgiveness you will ever need. Return to your first love!

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

In a world marred by sin, life often seems to be marked by the catchphrase, “Two steps forward and one step back.” This phrase points to the truth that forward progress in life is summed up in a single word: DIFFICULT!

This difficulty, or course, is what every Christian has been promised as the pathway to heaven.

I have told you these things, so that in my you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

(John 16:33)

Life is marked by trials, tribulations, and countless unexpected twists and turns in the road. Jesus painted the picture of what it means to be His disciple with absolute precision. He never shaded the truth to draw larger crowds; He made it crystal clear that life would be an uphill climb all the way into glory.

Here is the truth—the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; you are always in one of these three phases of life:

1. Heading into a storm
2. In the middle of a storm
3. Coming out of a storm

Think about it for a minute; personal experience testifies that this is true for all of us. Yet the Bible also makes it clear that, with every setback, God is setting things up for our comeback.

In His glorious “I have overcome the world” promise above, Jesus also gives us a divine imperative—“Take heart!”—and then explains why we should. Jesus has overcome all things, and that includes every setback we face in life.

As a pastor, one of the testimonies that I’ve heard repeated most often from the people I serve is how much they profited from the seeming setback they encountered in their walk with Christ. Not only were they aware that God sent the setback into their life, they knew God was in it with them! And in the middle of the setback, He was setting them up for a comeback.

So regardless of where this finds you today, whether riding the crest of the wave in a season of great success, or buried under the waves of challenge, know that Jesus is with you. Perhaps one of the best verses we can commit to memory comes from the inspired pen of James.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

(James 1:2-4)

Perseverance must finish its work. Christian, because you are reading this today, it is an undeniable truth that God has not finished His work in you yet. If He had, you would be with Him in glory! Through every setback you face, our loving Heavenly Father is making you mature and complete, not lacking anything, so that you may put Him on display and point the world to the One who sought you, caught you, and bought you with His precious blood.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!    

Have you heard of the “Tikker” watch? The Tikker watch not only tells you the time of day, it calculates your estimated normal life expectancy and displays a running countdown of your remaining time left to live. This product was inspired by the brevity of life and reminds us that EVERY SECOND MATTERS!

Show me, O Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath.

(Psalm 39:4-5)

When was the last time you really considered just how brief life is? As a pastor, I am confronted by weekly reminders of this biblical truth reflected in the lives of those I have the privilege to shepherd. King David was face-to-face with this stark reality in the Psalm 39 above; he described the span of his life as being no longer than the width of his hand, as nothing compared to the eternal existence of God, little more than a breath of air.

I am convinced that holding to this view of life is the only way we can truly make the time we have been given matter. We must keep in view that the gift of life we have been given is just that: a gift. Our gift back to God is how we choose to live or invest our brief span in this earthly tent for His glory and the good of others—all others, regardless of cost or circumstance.

So . . . knowing that it’s later than it’s ever been, have you prayerfully considered just how you have been investing your time lately? With your family? At the office? In your church?

God has given us many resources that, when spent, can be replaced. Time is not one of them! When you spend an hour, you have one less hour to spend. Perhaps the Tikker is not such a crazy idea. Life is racing by, and if we don’t pause long enough to live it, we will miss it.

Remember, the past is gone; the future on this side of the grave is promised to no one; all you have is right now. The clock is counting down and eventually, inevitably, the sands of time will run completely out. Now is the time to serve God. Now is the time to recommit yourself to making every moment matter. Now is the time to live for nothing smaller than the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the only place where you will find yourself living a life that truly matters—a life that will be measured not by its duration, but rather by its donation!

You are going to give your life to something; we all do. Why not give it completely to the One who gave it to you? Prayerfully consider these two questions as we close today:

What changes do I need to make in my life right now to make every second count?

What will it cost me if I don’t?

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

No doubt you’ve heard the phrase, “To throw in the towel,” which simply means to quit. The phrase comes from the sport of boxing. Years ago, corner men used sponges to clean the boxer’s face of blood and sweat in between rounds. If at any point during the fight the boxer’s team felt the fighter could not continue without risk of personal safety, they would toss the sponge into the ring and the referee would immediately stop the fight. Over time, the towel replaced the sponge, and hence the expression.

I’d like to offer you a word of encouragement with a modified expression: Don’t throw in the trowel! A trowel is a tool used for building, primarily by masons who use a trowel for leveling, spreading, or shaping substances such as cement or mortar.

In the boxing world, “throwing in the towel” can mean the difference between life and death. Boxers have died in the ring, often because a fighter does not know when enough is enough, which is why a discerning corner man is critical in this combat sport. However, in the world of believing, throwing in the trowel is not an option. Those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are counted among His ranks are called to spend a lifetime in the process of building, shaping, and growing to maturity in their faith.

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen. (2 Peter 3:18)

Peter gave us a tremendous reminder that growing up into Christ is a lifelong project that will not be completed until we get to the other side. And notice that this not simply a suggestion for us to make a decision about. It is a divine imperative, which means we are commanded by God to grow to maturity.

The Bible knows nothing of the stunted saint who has decided to stop growing along the way to glory. Let me ask you a question: How high will a tree grow? The answer, of course, is “As high as it can!”

You may be thinking, “That’s an odd question. Of course a tree will grow as high as it can!” And you’re right. Everything in God’s creation will grow as much as it can . . . except people. We are the only members of God’s creation who often make a decision to stop growing.

But this is not for you! God has given us several means of grace that assist us in the process of growing to maturity, such as Bible study, prayer, fasting, service, giving, and corporate worship, to name just a few. It is our responsibility to appropriate these means in our life. God has given us the trowel, but we need to pick it up and use it to shape our growth!

I have written this before, but it is always important to remember that it is not the means that grow us to maturity; it is our Master! And yet He has ordained the means that we are to use in the process as He pours out His grace in our lives.

So . . . how are you doing in your life-long building project? The key that unlocks the door that leads to growing in grace is the understanding that it happens daily, not in a day. There will certainly be those days when you will feel like you have taken one step forward and two steps backward. That’s simply part of the process, so don’t get discouraged! If some failure or setback has caused you to consider “throwing in the trowel,” keep looking to the One who promised to finish in you what He started (Philippians 1:6), knowing that one day, you will be brought home into glory, conformed perfectly into the image and likeness of Jesus!

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!    

Some things in life remain a mystery, no matter how hard we pry into them, trying to gain understanding. God made it that way . . . and as with all things, it is for our good and His glory.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

(Deuteronomy 29:29)

Think about it this way: The message of mystery must convince us that there is indeed a God . . . and He is not me! Omniscience belongs only to our Most High God. He alone possesses the knowledge of everything; when we apprehend this deep truth, we can rest in the comfort of knowing the One who knows everything and gives us exactly the knowledge we need to do everything He has called us to do.

I really can’t imagine the burden of knowing everything, can you? Finite minds were never designed by God to understand the infinite. Far better to be in hot pursuit of the “tree of life” than the “tree of knowledge,” because as I have said many times from the pulpit, “We know more than we do.” If we spent a little more time doing what we already know, the world and the people in it would be a whole lot better off, and they would give far more glory to God!

The message of mystery is a message of unimaginable comfort for those who will receive it. We should let it motivate us to move toward God moment by moment, trusting Him even when we cannot trace Him, receiving His divine providence even when it is painful and surrendering to His sovereign will even when it is delivered through stormy seas and sleepless nights.

May our desire for learning never rise above our desire for loving our God and all those He sends into our lives! Job knew not the reason behind his misery, but he knew his God was above it. He knew his God was faithful and loving and could be trusted . . . even in the face of unimaginable pain and loss. Sure, Job questioned God and begged for answers, crying out in the misery of his mysterious mess. But in the end, the God he questioned was the God he counted on and the God he knew could be trusted.

So . . . how have you been dealing with the message of mystery in your life lately? Would you really be better off knowing every detail of divine providence in your life right now? To know the Lord Jesus Christ is to know enough! That was God’s message to Job. There is nothing you are going through that caught God by surprise. God has ordained all things and His promise is to take all those things and turn them to gold for the godly. To be sure, this gold will need to be refined by fire, but when it comes out the other side, it will be a clear reflection of the One who has refined it!

Peter knew a great deal about the Refiner’s fire. He wrote:

In this [salvation] you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  (1 Peter 1:6-9)

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

When was the last time you fasted? I mean really fasted, based on the biblical understanding of this means of grace God has given to us—one that is often neglected?

Make no mistake, fasting is far more about your attitude than your action. It is not so much the absence of food as it is about the presence of our faithful God. Jesus has instructed us:

When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

(Matthew 6:16)

It is as important as it is instructive to note these words from our Lord during His glorious Sermon on the Mount came right on the heels of instructions about “When you give” and “When you pray,” which means that our God elevates fasting to the level of giving and praying.

The question is: Have we? Do we regard fasting as an important aspect of the Christian life? When we go without food for a meal or two, we are expressing our dependence upon God for life itself. Fasting, no less than praying or singing a chorus in church, is a form of worship. We are turning our attention to the Almighty, from whom all our blessings flow.

Take just a cursory glance through the Bible and you’ll see why people like David, Nehemiah, Esther, and even Jesus Himself fasted. It is a means of focusing wholly on God and drawing near to Him, a practice which was mandated by God for the people of Israel once each year on the Day of Atonement.

We read about fasting while feasting in the eighth chapter of Zechariah’s prophecy. God instructs His people to come to Jerusalem to celebrate with feasting and fellowship while “seeking the Lord Almighty to ask the Lord to bless them” (Zechariah 8:22). For the children of Israel, it was all about an attitude of the heart, not the absence of food.

Whenever we draw near to God we are, in some sense, fasting from the stuff of this world. Remember, you can fast from food and still be far away from God. The Pharisees fasted twice a week—to impress the people—and they could not have been farther away from God! They were seeking the applause of man rather than acclaim for God.

The Bible makes it clear that there is a special blessing that is only found on the other side of fasting. It is a great blessing to withdraw from table fellowship from time to time in order to totally focus on God. When our stomachs are empty, we can fill ourselves with the presence of Jesus through prayer and meditation, and feast on Him as our only true source of sustenance in this life and the next.

It really comes down to why we do something, rather than what we are actually doing. Fasting without focusing on Jesus is not fasting; it is foolishness. It is an empty ritual that cuts us off from growing in our relationship with Christ.

So . . . prayerfully consider how God might be moving you to add a bit of fasting to your spiritual disciplines, such as Bible reading, corporate worship, giving, and praying. You’ll be glad you did . . . and God will be glorified.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

There is a statement I often heard and used throughout my years in the field of personal development: You miss 100% of the targets you don’t shoot at! In other words, forward progress in life is marked by having a target to aim at and actually pulling the trigger and going after that goal.

Once that truth is firmly established, then the question to ask ourselves is: What target have I been aiming at lately? If Jesus is not the target—the center of our entire life—then we simply are not aiming at the right target.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

(Romans 11:36)

The Bible makes it clear that everything we have is a gift of God; everything has come to us from Him and through Him. Because of this truth, there is nothing in our lives that does not belong to—and thus come under the authority of—the Lord Jesus Christ. Think about it this way:

• In our single walk Jesus is the target
• In our married life Jesus is the target
• In our parenting Jesus is the target
• In our professions Jesus is the target
• In our possessions Jesus is the target
• In our health Jesus is the target
• In our recreation Jesus is the target
• In our hobbies Jesus is the target

I could go on and on with this list. In everything Jesus is the target, because everything we have today has been given to us by Jesus and is to be stewarded for His glory.

Make no mistake, autonomous living (living without Christ as the target of life), is absolutely antithetical to the Christian life. We have been wired for intimacy, fellowship, and community with our Creator, and we have been given the amazing privilege of being caretakers of everything God created.

Yet the major problem we face as children of Adam is that, by nature, we tend to deify the creation and deny our Creator. We make everything other than Jesus the target of our lives and we move Him to the periphery, seeking to glorify ourselves rather than our Savior. We end up living a Christless Christianity, with the “stuff” of life serving as our functional savior.

The key to keeping this from happening in our lives is by keeping Jesus as the target we aim at in all things. With Jesus at the very center of our lives and hopes, we rise above the mediocrity of living a life marked by self-fulfillment and self-centeredness. Shooting for this Timeless Target in every area of life keeps us busy advancing the cause of the Kingdom of Christ, rather than engaging in the trivial pursuit our own little kingdom. And this is the only place where we find the purpose, meaning, and significance that makes life worth living.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

Because we are made by God for God, we have a God-sized hole in our soul that can only be filled by God. No matter how hard we try to fill the hole in our soul with everything other than God Himself, nothing else will do the trick. Some try to fill it with their careers, finding their identity in what they do for a living. Others try to fill it with materialism, finding their meaning in the stuff they have accumulated. Still others try to fill it with relationships, finding their fulfillment in family, friendships, or romance. And, of course, there are those who try to fill it with everything from sex to alcohol to drugs.

If you attend Cross Community Church, you’ve probably heard me quote Augustine: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” There is nothing—absolutely nothing smaller than Jesus—that can fill the longings of the soul.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

(Mark 8:36)

We spend far too much time trying to satisfy our natural appetites. And, all too often, we who have trusted in the name of Christ for our salvation miss this vitally important truth: Jesus did not come to earth and come into our lives to satisfy the appetites we already have; He came to transform our appetites so that we would desire things we had never dreamed of! Jesus did not come to fit into our agenda and help us accomplish our goals. He came to give us a whole new agenda and begin working toward the accomplishment of His goals for our lives.

What have you been working toward satisfying lately? Your natural appetites? Or the new ones Jesus came to give you?

When Adam and Eve turned away from God in the Garden of Eden, they denied their very humanity. They were not designed to seek their own truth, their own desires, or their own goals. They were designed to listen to the truth of God, which would lead them to the pursuit of desires God gave them to accomplish His goals for their lives. Adam and Eve were hardwired for intimacy, fellowship, and communion with God, which would forever fill the God-ordained hole in their souls.

Sin changed all that. Now our first parents were running away from God, rather than toward Him. They tried to fill their souls with everything other than God. But God stepped in and gave them—and us—a promise that a Savior would come, One who will fill the hole in our soul once and for all.

So . . . is it well with the hole in your soul? What have you been trying to fill it with lately? One of the quickest ways to check and see what you have been pouring into your soul lately is to measure the amount of time you spend watching television or surfing the Internet, compared to the time you spend in God’s Word. It’s hard to fill the God-shaped hole in your soul when you have one foot in the world and one pinkie toe in the Word!

Your prayer life is another way to measure how well you have been filling your soul lately. If the bulk of your prayer time is spent praying over your food, you are probably close to running on empty . . . if you haven’t already run out of spiritual “gas.” Corporate worship is still another measure. It has been well said that a week without corporate worship makes one weak!

God has given us a variety of ways to keep the hole in our souls filled on a daily basis. But just like the modern gas station, no one comes running out of the gas station to wash your windows, check your oil, and pump your gas. You have to do it yourself! God has given you the grace to grow, but that grace must be appropriated along the way.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN! 

More than at any previous time in history, we live in a disposable culture. We are surrounded by stuff that we use one day (or for a short period of time) and dispose of the next. The term disposable implies cheapness; from paper products to plastic water bottles . . . from dryer sheets to disposable cameras . . . we toss these items away with little thought because they can be easily and inexpensively replaced.

Sadly, we often allow relationships to be put into the category of disposable when things don’t go our way. We are friends with someone today and strangers the next. Yet there is one relationship that is NOT disposable: your relationship with your Redeemer.

I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Romans 8:38-39)

Because God is unchanging—He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8)—there is nothing in the entire universe that can ever possibly separate you from Jesus Christ. Not even your sin! Earlier in his epistle to the Romans, the apostle Paul gave us this word of unimaginable comfort and encouragement: “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). God does not love you one minute and look for ways to dispose of you the next. God’s love for you in Christ Jesus is . . .

• Immeasurable!
• Inexpressible!
• Inexhaustible!

You see, if you have placed your trust in Christ’s atoning work on your behalf, God has put your sin away, never to be raised up again. Your sins are as far from you as the east is from the west—a distance that is utterly immeasurable. Your sins have been washed away by the blood of the Lamb of God. Every sin—past, present, and future—has been nailed to the cross, which means that His mercy and forgiveness for you is inexhaustible. When Jesus uttered His victory cry of “It is finished,” He meant what He said! As far as God is concerned, your sins have been covered—freely, fully, and forever—by the perfect righteousness of the Lamb of God.

Know this: when Jesus hung on that cross, with spikes driven through His feet and hands and a cruel crown of thorns jammed down into His brow, He was thinking about you. The depth of His love for you is inexpressible . . . He loves you with a divine love that is NOT DISPOSABLE!

What does this truth mean to you today? I pray that you will feel as encouraged as you feel empowered to live for the One who has said, in both word and deed, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. You are not disposable to Me!”

Let that truth set you free to live the perfect plan God has for your life—even though you will surely live it imperfectly—with freedom, joy, and faithfulness to Jesus Christ.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!