The Daily Invitation
Every day we have an opportunity to discover more about God and respond to his invitation to live in love and experience freedom. The Daily Invitation outlines the many ways Scripture calls us to know and follow God. By reflecting on these promises, believers are called to receive God’s give of grace, seek him earnestly, and surrender their lives.
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Freed For Freedom
God both frees us and enlists us in his army of freedom fighters. He didn’t free you so you could get off the hook. He freed you for an eternal purpose of freedom. Christ takes us out of the prison cell and hands us a job description that reads, “Live in my freedom.”
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So how do we respond? We don’t need to feel condemned for having difficulties in knowing and loving God. The whole point of Romans 8 is that we do not live under condemnation, yet we so easily live as if we do. In theory, we can be convinced that this promise is true for us and still be unsure of how this plays out in reality.
Believing Is Receiving
Even when you fall down, call on God to help you. You might fall 1,000 times, but scripture already tells us in Psalms 34:19 NLT that The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.”
Humble Dependence
In reality, growth in the Christian life is confessional. We stop pretending that we can fix ourselves and start falling on our knees to beg God to have mercy on us. This place of desperation and humility is where the Holy Spirit meets us and supernaturally renews us from the inside out.
Worth Pressing After
He is worth every effort we could give and more. What is unique about God is that he doesn’t expect us to strive our way into the kingdom. His acceptance of us is not based on what we deserve but on what he has done.
Fully In His Presence
Every part of our life that we call “good” apart from God is a missed opportunity to live in his presence.
Gladness Will Come
What I can declare is this promise. God will turn your mourning into dancing. This is the irresistible and unprecedented power of God in our lives. We can look at the cross of Jesus Christ, the great mark of suffering, and watch it transform into the empty grave, the promise of resurrection life.
The Outward Appearance
If even the great prophet Samuel (who heard God’s voice calling three times in the temple) needed to be reminded of what matters to God, we surely could humbly respond to this invitation.
Psalm 121:1-2 | Look Up
So often, when facing trials and struggles, we turn to our own devices and solutions to find a way out. It’s possible that our knee-jerk reaction to difficulty is to think that we are less worthy of a relationship with God.
Romans 6:23 | The Gift of God
God’s salvation is a gift. No amount of striving will get you a place closer to the front of the line. No amount of failure will push you to the back of the line. There is no line! It is just Christ extending his grace to each one of us. We can receive it with joy or turn away and keep trying in our own strength.
Romans 12:2 | Be Transformed
Instead, God uses this power to reign as a generous and gracious God. Our invitation is not the bondage of slavery. He invites us to be like him through the transformational work that comes from encountering God and being disciplined by the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:18 | The Unseen Things
The promise of the unseen glory and the joy of salvation drove him to the cross. Similarly, when our hope is in Christ, fixed on the unseen things, we find the greatest capacity to live sacrificially in our physical reality. All our physical demonstrations of faith are unto the unseen things, namely the things I’d heaven, but also from this unseen realm.
Colossians 3:15 | The Rule of Peace
Sometimes the stress of life and the burdens we carry become so overwhelming that we check out. We put an emotional box around our concerns and try to avoid facing the pressures on us. In time, this avoidance leaves room for “rulers” to enter the political stage of our hearts. Fear, chaos, worry, pride, resentment, bitterness, and anger creep into our hearts, calling the shots and lobbying their arguments. Our ruler ceases to be peace.