Choosing a Center
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This 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 or 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 this world leads only to destruction. But, to center our lives around meeting with God fills each moment with the 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.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 12:13, and today's worship is Waste My Life by First15 Worship feat. Craig & Rachel Denison.
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| 0:00.0 | Our life is marked by a single choice. |
| 0:07.0 | Who or what will we center our lives around? |
| 0:10.0 | This choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, |
| 0:15.0 | what we feel, who are what we value, and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days. |
| 0:21.6 | To center our lives around ourselves or the things of the world leads only to destruction. |
| 0:26.6 | But to center our lives around meeting with God fills each moment with a glorious abundance |
| 0:32.6 | of God's love, provision, and transcendent peace. |
| 0:36.6 | May your life be marked by union with your creator |
| 0:40.1 | as we explore what it means to center our lives around meeting with God this week. Welcome |
| 0:45.8 | to the First of Team podcast. Our verse for today comes from Ecclesiastes 12, verse 13. |
| 1:04.0 | Scripture says, the end of the matter. |
| 1:08.0 | All has been heard. |
| 1:10.0 | Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole |
| 1:14.4 | duty of man. What would our lives look like if we truly centered our time, energy, emotions, |
| 1:24.3 | and pursuits around meeting with God. |
| 1:28.3 | All of us choose to center our lives around something or someone. |
| 1:33.3 | Every decision is made through the filter of what we most value. |
| 1:38.3 | For some of us, we center our lives around ourselves. |
| 1:43.3 | For others, we center our lives around the opinion of others. |
| 1:48.0 | And still others choose to center life around a notion or concept, |
| 1:53.0 | believing it to be of the highest value. |
| 1:56.0 | My prayer is that we as the body of Christ would begin to center our lives here on earth |
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