You can’t focus on what God has for you when you are always looking at others in comparison. This is a lesson we must learn over and over again as exemplified by Jesus’ first followers.
We are made to serve one another in joyous and diligent contentment before God with all who have gone before us.
Proverbs is practical wisdom for real life, especially for people stepping into adulthood. We need God’s grace, wise counsel, and a teachable spirit to live faithfully and well.
Living wisely means honoring God through both diligent work and careful speech. It’s a call to do excellent work, rest faithfully, and speak intentionally.
Wisdom begins with a reverent respect for God - an awe that trusts his goodness, power, and perspective above our own.
True wisdom is not just knowledge or experience, but humility, listening, and a willingness to learn from God and others.
Jesus is the victor over sin, evil, and death, and his crucifixion and resurrection reveal God’s ultimate power and love.
Jesus’ death on the cross was not about changing God’s heart, but about revealing God’s love and changing ours. Jesus is the victorious, loving King who willingly goes to the cross to save the world and call us to live in that same self-giving love.
Because Jesus has done for us what we could never do for ourselves through the cross and resurrection, we are saved by grace for a new life of good works, living for God and others.
Jesus’ crucifixion is God’s Word to us—revealing God’s heart of love, God’s action to reconcile and heal a broken, self-centered humanity, and God’s will for how we are to live.
