Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled The Adventure was written by Anne Cetus.

Christianity is not for me.

It's boring.

One of my values I hold on to is adventure. That's life to me,

a young woman told me. It saddened me that she hadn't yet learned the incredible joy and

excitement that comes with following Jesus, an adventure like no other. I excitedly shared with her

about Jesus and how real life is found in him.

Mere words are inadequate to describe the adventure of knowing and walking with Jesus, God's

son. But in Ephesians 1, the Apostle Paul gives us a small but powerful glimpse of life with him. God gives us spiritual

blessings directly from heaven, holiness and blamelessness in God's eyes, and adoption as his

own into the King's royal family. He blesses us with the lavish gift of his forgiveness and grace, understanding of the

mystery of his will, and a new purpose of living for the praise of his glory. The Holy Spirit comes

to live in us to empower and lead us, and he guarantees eternity in God's presence forever.

When Jesus Christ enters our life, we discover that getting to know him more and following him

closely is the greatest of adventures. Seek him now and every day for real life.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Ephesians chapter 1, verses 3 through 14.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly

realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ, for He chose us in Him before the creation

of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love, he predestined us for adoption to sonship through

Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace,

which he has freely given us in the one he loves. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with

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