It's All Because of Jesus

I have to be really careful in the upcoming weeks. There are so many exciting things coming up that I am dizzy. The Bridge just this month will kicking off the Great Adventure Project at the Community Supervision Center, our 22,000 square foot building will rise into the skies, and I will have the opportunity to tell the world about the discipleship of our church to thousands of church leaders at the Reveal Conference in Chicago. Wow! Plus God has brought us literally a hundred new folks in the last few weeks to get to know, tell about the Gospel, and start helping them grow in their faith.

As exciting as all of that sounds, I have to be careful. I must continue to seek the Lord while He may be found, to focus on His word, and to remember that while I was yet a sinner, the spotless lamb out of sheer love took my sin and bore it for me. I must remember to abide in His presence. I must remember that I have been loved and are loved to degrees that I cannot even begin to understand. I must remember that my response must be one of humble obedience and a passionate return love. I must remember to love others. I must remember that all of the above excitement is caused by Jesus and is about Jesus.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Colossians 1:15-23