Greetings leaders,
We live in a society that looks at all that surrounds us to find meaning and purpose in life. We have unparalleled access to everything our hearts desire and yet our society is still miserable. The world around us searches for purpose and meaning in temporal things and still comes up empty, because they’re looking in the wrong places.
But we know that all of that purpose and meaning is in Christ. Instead of being told who we are by society, we know who we are by what Christ has done on our behalf. We have been made in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26). We have sinned and fallen, alienating ourselves from the God who’s image we bare. There was nothing we could do or no amount of good deeds to erase our sins. We were without hope (Eph 2:12), children of wrath (2:3), enemies of God (Rom 5:10). But God loved us enough to send His one and only Son that we might be saved (John 3:16), that we might be reconciled (Rom 5:10-11), that we might be justified and accounted righteous (Rom 3:21-25). We are not doctors, or mechanics, or teachers; we are a men and women made in God’s image, marred by sin, but redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, adopted into the family of God. We are children of the Most High. Our meaning, our value, our worth are all wrapped up in Jesus. Not in what we do, but what He did on our behalf.
What a tremendous truth we get to share with our groups this week. Thank you for your consistent and faithful service to others!
Gratefully,
Joe and Kaylan