verseoftheday

I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Philippians 3:7 NLT Have you ever "woken up" & realised that something you put so much value in, something that seemed so important, just isn't? That's what Paul is confessing to here... the key things he'd placed his worth on, his identity in, his place in the world, were shown up as poor substitutes for knowing Jesus. His ethnicity, sex, education, work, and the last thing in his list in v 6, his self-salvation project, (if he was just good enough) were of no value compared to knowing what Jesus had done for him. He'd put his faith in good things, and now found the real thing he'd been striving for. #jesusatthecentre #believe #faith #everythingchanges #lightbulbmoment

"Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means 'God is with us'". Matthew 1:23 NLT For 42 generations God had been working from the outside...His presence was so powerful people couldn't survive it, heaven met earth only in the Holy of Holies...but now...at the first Christmas, it all changed. God shrunk himself, humbled himself, made himself "nothing"...a baby in a teenage single mother in a tiny backwater town where nothing good ever came...and in that moment God is with us. Jesus says I'm going to enter the story in a new way, I'm going to know what it's like to be you and I'm going to be with you on this journey... I'm not just going to make a way but I'll be that way...this is a love story and this is the best way I can show you that I love you. #with #christmas #everythingchanges #promisesofhope #love #itsalovestory