HIM

The way you treat people –

It’s all about HIM

The wisdom you instill in your children –

It’s all about HIM

The honest effort you put into your job –

It’s all about HIM

The person you are with your spouse –

It’s all about HIM

The faithfulness you display in friendship –

It’s all about HIM

EVERYTHING –

all that you are

and all that matters in this life

must stem from your relationship

with Jesus

the most vital relationship you have

You are

and you do

and you exist

because of God

Any other effort

will fall short

has

got

to be

all about HIM

– Susie Stewart

Be assured that from the first day we heard of you, we haven’t stopped praying for you, asking God to give you wise minds and spirits attuned to His will, and so acquire a thorough understanding of the ways in which God works. We pray that you’ll live well for the Master, making Him proud of you as you work hard in His orchard. As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work. We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul—not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that He has for us.

God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son He loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.

– Colossians 1:9-14 (MSG)

The God who made the world and everything in it, this Master of sky and land, doesn’t live in custom-made shrines or need the human race to run errands for Him, as if He couldn’t take care of Himself. He makes the creatures; the creatures don’t make Him. Starting from scratch, He made the entire human race and made the earth hospitable, with plenty of time and space for living so we could seek after God, and not just grope around in the dark but actually find Him. He doesn’t play hide-and-seek with us. He’s not remote; He’s near. We live and move in Him, can’t get away from Him! One of your poets said it well: “We’re the God-created.” Well, if we are the God-created, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to think we could hire a sculptor to chisel a god out of stone for us, does it?

– Acts 17:26-29 (MSG)

I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead…

– Philippians 3:10 (NLT)

I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

– Matthew 28:20 (NLT)

Photo by Susie Stewart