Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and in every moment of my day. ...
“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the Express Image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they” (Hebrews 1:1-4).
We American’s are impatient and want everything fast. We have drive throughs for fast food, banking, pharmacy, and curbside pick-ups far about everything, We want the cliff notes, the simple explanations, the all-in one, compact products.
Our one true God is incomprehensible. Paul states,“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!. For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” No matter how many “boxes” we try to put God in, there are no “cliff notes, ” nothing about God simple, fast, compact. God knew this. He did not want to have a distant, intangible relationship with us. So He became flesh in His Son Jesus. In Jesus, we have all the vastness of God in an all-in one package. Falling on our knees and cry out to Jesus, we are in the “drive-through lane” to God, and are immediately placed into His presence. God gift of grace is everything that Jesus is, all His love, power, and presence, made available to us today, right now.
So I look to You Jesus. I seek You. You are “the Express Image” of God: And as I turn to You and look to You, Your Spirit removes everything between us that is complicating and slowing my connecting with You and changes everything within me to be more like You, “transformed into the same image:” (Romans 11:33)
Keep removing every veil, every sin, every distorted image of who You are and who I am in You. Keep drawing me close to You, lifting up my spirit to You, setting me free in Your liberty to seek You and see You, to behold and worship You, as You change me into Your image “from glory to glory” more and more every day.
“For this is the will of God, (my) sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). This is Your plan for my life -- to make me more like You every day through every battle I face, every test I endure, and every challenge I overcome -- all by Your grace, as I’m looking to You (Romans 8:29; Hebrews 12:1-2). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
My family, I pray you may today enter the “fast lane to God” and cry out to Jesus, who is "the Express Image of God," He desires to keep changing You into His image by His Spirit more and more every day, "from glory to glory," in Jesus' name. God bless you my friends!
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