“It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.”
– Jeremiah 51:15

Praise God, our Creator! God spoke the universe into existence. He formed the earth by the power of His will. He built the world on the foundation of His perfect wisdom. This is why the things we call “laws of nature” exist. They are the human expression of God’s unchanging wisdom on which the universe is built. In His perfect knowledge, God made the galaxies, stars, and planets. Everything we are, everything we have, and everything we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell comes from God’s act of creation. Think about that. Really take time to think about it. There’s NOTHING apart from God’s will, power, wisdom, and understanding. Let this truth bring you to a humble place of praise for your Creator.

These things aren’t merely true about God’s original act of Creation. Scripture is very clear that God continues to sustain the universe right now. Things exist and nature’s “laws” remain true because God actively wills it right now. Specifically, it is God the Son, the eternal Christ, Whose will sustains you, this planet, and the entire universe moment-by-moment. Jesus isn’t just the Savior of the world, He is its sustainer. Creation holds together because He is actively willing it to do so. Praise the Son for literally holding your world together! Praise and #FollowJesus.

“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” – Romans 11:33

Take this verse as your invitation to worship God rather than question His wisdom. To be delighted in Him rather than frustrated when you don’t understand what He’s doing. God’s ways are not your ways. His thoughts aren’t your thoughts. Why? Because His thoughts are infinitely higher, deeper, and wider than yours. No offense intended, but it’s true! There’s no limit to God’s perfect knowledge of every detail of the universe and everything in it. There’s no limit to God’s wisdom. His knowledge and wisdom are truly endless in a way that yours will never be.

His judgments are “unsearchable” meaning that humans are simply incapable of ever fully understanding all that factors into God’s decisions. His knowledge of everything public and private is complete and perfect. He knows everything that has ever been, everything that is, and everything that ever will be. God knows how all these things weave together in ways that we can barely speculate about.

God’s ways are inscrutable to us because He isn’t just some really big, awesome, and powerful version of a human being. He’s an infinite, eternal Being Who literally spoke the universe into existence, formed mankind out of dust, and breathed life into us. These are things beyond our comprehension! We can say the words but still can’t fully understand how God created everything from nothing.

Don’t be bothered by these things! Let them build your trust and confidence in the perfect will and ways of your Creator. Let them inspire you to submit fully to His Lordship over your life. Let them move you to deep worship. Let them lead you to #FollowJesus

“You have said, ‘Seek my face.’
My heart says to you,
‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.’”
– Psalm 27:8

God isn’t hiding. He doesn’t play hard-to-get. He invites people to seek Him. Elsewhere in Scripture, God promises that those who earnestly seek Him will find Him. He wants YOU to know Him more fully and deeply than ever before. He welcomes you into His loving presence when you pursue Him. The ultimate guarantee of this is Jesus. God sent His eternal Son into the world to reveal Himself and to make the way for sinful people to enter into a relationship of love with their Holy Creator.

When you put your faith in Jesus as Lord, the way was opened. As you learn to abide in Christ – following Him, obeying Him, delighting in Him – you increasingly experience God in His Triune fullness, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus doesn’t hold anyone at arm’s length. He welcomes all who come to Him and embraces them as they seek Him.

Are you seeking the Lord today? Are you drawing near to Him in prayer? Are you stilling your soul at His feet? Are you rejecting and confessing any sin that might have you holding God at arm’s length? Are you meditating on Scripture and delighting in its truths and applications? Are you worshiping the Lord in public and in private? Are you delighting in friendship with fellow believers? Are you serving God in whatever way He has prepared for you? Are you sharing the love of Jesus with others who are seeking God? Seek His face and #FollowJesus!

“All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.”
– Psalm 25:10

Note carefully what David writes here, because it’s certainly true. He doesn’t promise that all of God’s paths are easy, comfortable, safe, popular, or lucrative. This promise is much, much better than those things! All the paths that God has prepared for His people to walk are full of Him. When you choose to walk the path God is calling you to, He promises you’ll find Him there. You’ll walk in God’s steadfast love and faithfulness. You’ll experience more of Him than you could ever possibly imagine. There is nothing better than that. Nothing!

The world pressures and tempts us to choose its paths, but those lead only to emptiness and ruin. The well-worn paths of earthly popularity, prosperity, comfort, safety, and ease promise much but deliver nothing of eternal significance. The paths of God lead to the joy of the Lord on earth and the reward of the Lord in eternity. So, which path will you choose today? The world’s or the Lord’s?

To walk the Lord’s path means choosing to take up your cross each day to follow Jesus. It means denying yourself so that you can fully experience Christ in you. It means making hard choices and sacrifices to obey Christ’s commandments, even when you’d rather not. It is the path of love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and healing. But it isn’t easy, comfortable, convenient, safe, or popular. Which path will you choose today? #FollowJesus

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” – Romans 8:13

Jesus Christ has done everything necessary for your salvation. By His sinless life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection, He has made the way for forgiveness of sins, salvation, reconciliation to God, and eternal life. All this comes as a gift of grace through faith in Jesus and never as a result of good works. Those who entrust their lives to Jesus receive God’s Holy Spirit and He changes their desires, making them aware of sin’s horror.

Having been saved from your sins, you must not continue to walk in them, excuse them, or defend them. Having been raised from spiritual death to spiritual life in Christ, you must live by the Holy Spirit. One key sign that you’ve truly put your faith in Jesus as your Lord is a new instinct to live a holy life through the Spirit. That is God calling you to start putting the sinful acts you naturally desire to do to death. Whether that’s a natural tendency toward anger, selfishness, greed, cruelty, manipulation, gossip, addiction, sexual immorality, or anything else. To follow Jesus means you must stop following those natural impulses toward sin, which we all have. Though we are all naturally drawn toward particular sins, followers of Jesus must not indulge those. Certainly not without a fight!

Those calling themselves Christian but still contentedly doing the old familiar things Jesus forbids are probably not actually saved. No matter what box you might check on a form, if you’re still living by the flesh, you’re probably still spiritually dead. If Jesus is your Lord, fight against the sins you think define you. Resist your temptations, no matter how difficult or long that battle may last. Receive grace whenever you fail and ask God’s forgiveness. But keep fighting. Don’t play around with your sins and temptations. Don’t flirt with them. Don’t ignore them. Don’t try to manage them. Put them to death! #FollowJesus