Looking at the Light

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

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 re-train ourselves to seek God first for satisfaction, may we find how abundantly beyond our imaginings the Lord’s sufficiency is for us.

Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 11:34, and today's worship is There is No Higher Name by REVERE.

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When we look to Jesus, we see this exciting, life-giving invitation:

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0:00.0	All of our longings and needs were meant to be met in God.
0:09.0	And yet we live in a world constantly vying to meet our needs and desires and false, inadequate ways.
0:16.0	Today, we'll explore how to walk in the light by looking to the light to meet all of our needs.
0:23.0	As we retrain ourselves to seek God first for satisfaction,
0:27.3	may we find how abundantly beyond our imaginings the Lord's sufficiency is for us.
0:33.6	Welcome to the First of Teen podcast.
0:49.8	Thank you. Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Luke 11, verse 34.
0:55.0	Scripture says, your eye is the lamp of your body.
0:59.6	When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light.
1:03.9	But when it's bad, your body is full of darkness.
1:09.4	We live in a world filled with darkness of all forms. On any given day, we're
1:15.1	inundated with temptation after temptation, lie after lie, darkness after darkness. But in the
1:24.4	person of Jesus, a powerful hope has entered into the story of humanity.
1:30.3	Matthew 416 says,
1:33.3	The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light,
1:36.3	and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
1:43.3	You and I now have the choice to fill our lives with the light of God.
1:49.2	We're delivered from a life marked by darkness and set free to fill ourselves with the things of God.
1:57.1	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.
2:07.6	It's for this reason, Jesus said in Luke 1134,
2:11.6	Your eye is the lamp of your body.
2:14.6	When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light. But when
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