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 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 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. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 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 opinions of others. 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's absolutely the most

worthy recipient of our highest value. To center our lives around meeting with God is to place value on the absolute best thing.

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