All of our longings and needs were meant to be met in God, and yet we live in a world

constantly vying to meet our needs and desires in false, inadequate ways.

Today we'll explore how to walk in the light by looking to the light to meet all of our needs. As we

retrain ourselves to seek God first for satisfaction, may we find how abundantly beyond our

imaginings the Lord's sufficiency is for us. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. We live in a world filled with darkness of all forms. On any given day, we are

inundated with temptation after temptation, lie after lie, darkness after darkness. But in the

person of Jesus, a powerful hope has entered into the story of humanity.

Matthew 416 says, the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light,

and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.

You and I now have the choice to fill our lives with the light of God.

We're delivered from a life marked by darkness and set free to fill ourselves with the things of God.

But still, there is a choice set before us.

The light has come, but we have a real enemy trying to draw us back to the darkness at every turn.

It's for this reason Jesus said in Luke 1134, your eye is the lamp of your body.

When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body

is full of darkness.

You and I must choose to look to the light if we want to be spiritually

healthy and full of light. We must look to the light if we want the abundant life God offers

us through every season of this life. Paul writes in Philippians 4-8, Finally, Brothers, whatever

is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is

pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable. If there is any excellence, if there is

anything worthy of praise, think about these things. I pray that God would train us to look upon

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