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  The teaching of Jesus is so profound! The paradox of taking up our cross is not just profound, it is essential to know how to live in the first place.

  The Bible gives us great motivation for life... some of that motivation is in the way of warnings. A waring that is so helpful is to be sure that we be careful what we sow (do) because we will reap based on that. What we do will have repercussions in this life. So let us follow Christ faithfully. . . don't get off the straight and narrow way my friends! We end up stuck and needing help from above when we don't follow Christ.

  As we read of Yahweh appearing in the Old Testament, we know that these are pre-incarnate appearances of Jesus. God appears ... But God is Spirit, so as the LORD stands and speaks, it is Jesus. And He ministers great comfort to Jacob saying He will be with Him. We can take this comfort for our own for Jesus is with us today too! Genesis 28:12–14 (NLT) 12 As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.   13 At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.   14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

I love the prayer the Paul had for the Ephesian believers. This shares what would be truly a blessed individual. May the Lord give us grace to value and prize these above all. Ephesians 3:16 –19 ...that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

God's glory is eternally unique. There is no end to searching it out. Once we begin to dive down into understanding His depth and power, we never will end in it's great depth. His greatness is eternally greater than we can search and find. We will never fathom its greatness or depth. I love this phrase from Psalm 145. Psalm 145:3 Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable.

  We can find lasting hope in our everlasting God. When our hope is placed in items that disappear, our hope is weak and faulty. When our hope is placed in God, it is solid. He is our everlasting Rock!