As we continue our week on living an abundant life,

today we'll explore the topic of pursuing Jesus passionately

in our daily lives.

As we discussed the past couple days,

abundant life is a gift,

but that doesn't mean it comes without a choice on our

part to receive. Open your heart to the Father today and allow your mind to be renewed to the good

life he has for you. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 27 verse 8.

Scripture says,

You have said, seek my face.

My heart says to you, your face, Lord, do I seek?

The key to abundant life here on earth is the passionate pursuit of Jesus.

I doubt there will be a single believer whoever hears these words that will doubt that statement.

But I also know that we often fail to truly believe that statement in our hearts. If we truly believed

that the key to abundant life was passionately pursuing Jesus, most of our lives would look drastically

different. My life would look drastically different. If we truly believed that passionately pursuing Jesus would

bring us abundant life, the way we spent our time would drastically change. We would choose

pursuing the presence of God over entertainment more often. We would structure most of our worship services differently.

We would cease working for the opinion of man

and start living for the good pleasure of our Creator.

And our lives would look simpler, more joyful, more peaceful, and more like the life of Jesus.

The good news for you and me is that there is grace for us today.

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