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And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast. So good to be with you on this significant day,

Good Friday. We usually just drop like a five-minute devotion every day, but this week we have

done some extended episodes, tracing the steps of Jesus on his way to the cross. And today we're

there. The Bible is a collection, a library of different books inspired with the Holy Spirit of God

and penned by different authors.

It's full of historical narrative and songs and wise proverbs and truth and biography and prophecy

and genealogies and guidance, but primarily the Bible is a love story.

Now, I know you can't reduce God's word to a single paragraph, but the overview of the

Bible could be like this.

God longs for a relationship with people like us.

People like us broke the relationship.

So God moves throughout history to restore the broken relationship with people like us.

I love how the message puts Ephesians chapter 1,

verse 4, long before he even laid down the earth's foundations, he had us and mine,

has settled on us as the focus of his love to be made whole and holy by his love.

Long, long ago, he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ.

This road that Jesus walked was the road of restoration. This was God's plan. He had settled on us as

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