Ephesians chapter 1 verses 3 to 6.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly

places even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and

blameless before him.

He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his

will, to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved.

One of the saddest feelings I think that you can have in life is to feel that your life is going nowhere.

You're alive, but you feel like you can't even think of any real good point in being alive.

Get up in the morning and the day looks blank, it looks empty.

You have a little flicker every now and then, a little daydream that it might be awesome

if your life could be connected in some significant way to a cause or a future

that is beautiful and glorious and sure. And then you wake up from your little flicker and your little daydream and everything

around you looks small and insignificant, short-lived, not very important at all.

I don't think we were made to live that way. I don't think we were made human beings in the image of God to live without a fantastically important, sure, glorious, good, beautiful destiny.

I think we were made to be sustained moment by moment by the sure confidence that there's a connection

between what I'm doing today and something great that's coming tomorrow.

I think we were made to be nourished and strengthened by the hope that no matter how mundane,

no matter how ordinary what I do from day to day is, it's hooked in meaningfully to something

great, something glorious, something sure, something good and beautiful.

I believe we are made that way.

Human beings are structured that way and when the connection breaks down

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