“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.” Eph. 1:11 The Message

Where will you find your life …?

You can look all around you and miss it because you are looking at the wrong thing. You can wear yourself out hoping and thinking that maybe .. just maybe .. you’ll earn enough to do what you want to do with your own time. You can compare yourself to others and constantly be reassuring yourself that life is okay compared to what you see in the world you live in. Jesus offers you what can never earn on your own .. produce out of your own resources .. or obtain from being in the right place at the right moment … your real life. Your real life is found in Christ. It is His life living in you  that will reveal what you secretly long for: true identity and true purpose. And sometimes .. you will see clearly how far from His life and design you have strayed. God won’t force you .. but He will unleash all the forces of the Kingdom to help you when you call upon Him .. turn to Him .. and return to your first love in Christ.  All the messages in the world around you and all the open doors and green lights ahead of you cannot provide you with one moment of your true self. Glorious living is only glorious living when Christ is in the center of your life. This is the only design where you will experience and know the abiding peace .. abiding power .. and abiding purpose of Christ’s life in you and your life in Christ. It only takes a moment …

“Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.” Eph. 1:12 The Message

Ken Chester: Grace-Gripped is sent M-F to Gloriously-Designed Men and Women living for Christ in the world they live in and friends of Priority One (ken@priorityone.org)