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.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

What would our lives look like if we truly center 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 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

will 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 around 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 in shield.

The Lord bestows favor and honor.

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