Our life is marked by a single choice. Who or what will we center our lives around?

This choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, what we feel, who are what we value, and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days.

To center our lives around ourselves or the things of the world

leads only to destruction. But to center our lives around meeting with God

fills each moment with a glorious abundance of God's love, provision, and transcendent peace.

May your life be marked by union with your Creator

as we explore what it means to center our lives around meeting with God this week.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our verse with today comes from Ecclesiasties 12 verse 13.

Scripture says,

The end of the matter, all has been heard. Fear God and keep His

Commandments. For this is the whole duty of man.

What would our lives look like if we truly centered our time, energy, emotions, and pursuits

around meeting with God? All of us choose to center our lives around something or someone.

Every decision is made through the filter of what we most value.

For some of us, we center our lives around ourselves. For others, we

center our lives around the opinion of others. And still others choose to center life around a notion or concept believing it to be

of the highest value. My prayer is that we as the body of Christ would begin to center our lives here on

earth around meeting with our Creator because he is absolutely the most worthy recipient of our highest value.

To center our lives or a meeting with God is to place value on the absolute best thing. Psalm 84 10 through 12 says,

for a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is a son and shield. The Lord bestows favor in honor.

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