Don’t settle for less than this

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Don’t settle for less than this”

God wants you to have a good life. He makes that plain in the Bible from start to finish. As I noted in yesterday’s devotional, that doesn’t mean your life will be a never-ending story of rainbows and unicorns, lollipops and gumdrops, puppy dogs and butterflies. You will have your share of trials and tribulations, and there will be pain and heartache. But even though that is true, life with Jesus will always be better than life without Jesus. And again, as noted yesterday, if you are a maturing disciple of Jesus, then the Holy Spirit will be filling your life with the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and that will be true regardless of your current and momentary external circumstances.

In Ephesians 3:16-20 Paul prayed a beautiful prayer for his readers. In verse 16-19 he prayed for their strength, power, faith, love, knowledge, and for their awareness of Christ’s presence with them. He also prayed for them to embrace the fullness of God in their lives. Then in verse 20 he included a very revealing insight. He wrote, “Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us …” According to Paul, God is able to do far more in our lives than we can even ask for or think of. He has the power to do it and He wants to do it.

The truth is that God wants you to have a good life and He is willing to work in your life to help you have the life He wants for you. You just need to cooperate with Him. The best life you will ever have is the one that is lived right in the center of His will for you. The problem is that many of us are pursuing our plan for us rather than God’s plan for us. Truth be told, we want our will to be done rather than God’s will to be done.

I want you to know this morning that God has a great plan for you that will result in the best life you can have. I urge you to never settle for anything less than God’s best for you.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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