Bigger Than Me, Day 6 How do we show God we love him? As we conclude the Bigger Than Me reading plan plan in YouVersion.com, we find ourselves in Matthew 22:37-39. We are to love God. God commands it and indicates to us the importance of our demonstrating our love for him. This is a building block of our relationship with him. However, how do we demonstrate that? How do you actually show God that you love him? God answers this in these verses by indicating that the second area to show love. We can demonstrate our love for God through the way in which we treat those we are…

Bigger Than Me, Day 5 As we read through Day 5 of the bigger than Me Devotional on YouVersion.com, we come to realize that we are not nearly as important as we like to think that we are. We have this sense of self-worth and this drive for significance that doesn’t coincide with what the Bible has to say about who we are. God understands that we are God-breathed dirt. He is the one who breathed life into us after all. When we start to get an inflated sense of who we are and what we can do, that impacts how open we are going to be to following Him.…

Bigger Than Me, Day 4 Focus. What is the opposite of focus? Distraction. Martha knew all about distraction. Read Luke 10:38-42. As we look at day 4 of the Bigger Than Me reading plan in YouVersion.com, we come to see the importance of of staying focused. Martha had Jesus in her home yet The Bible indicates that she was distracted. She had so many things on her mind that she needed to do for Jesus instead of recognizing that it’s really about being with Jesus. It comes down to distraction versus focus. How focused are we on Jesus and all that he does for us? Are we still under the…

Bigger Than Me, Day 3 Faith. We cannot truly allow God to be who he wants to be in our life without faith. Read Hebrews 11:1-6. Looking at the Bigger Than Me reading plan on YouVersion.com, we see that there is such an importance and emphasis on faith in the life of the believer. God loves us and he knows us. Yet, much of the way that we know God is through faith. We will never truly understand all that goes on with God, but we can have faith that he is who he says and that he will do what he says he will do. As we focus on…

Bigger Than Me, Day 2 As we look at the second day of the YouVersion.com reading plan “bigger than me,” we understand that Jesus is actually everything there is. Read Matthew 4:19 and Revelation 1:8. Jesus Christ was there in the beginning. He is God so he was with God upon creation of everything. He is the beginning of all things and he will be the end of all things. When we think about who we are and the span that we have on this Earth, we must understand that it pales in comparison to the influence and span that Jesus Christ has. Our worth and all that we are…

Bigger Than Me, Day 1 As we finish out the year, we’re going to take the next 6 days to review where our focus needs to be as we head into the New Year. Read YouVersion.com, we will be following the “Bigger than me” reading plan for these 6 days. Everything that we have done this year has been amazing and as we reflect on it and all the things that we have learned and thought about for this year, we need to recognize and understand what we can learn to do differently next year. What did we do well that we should continue doing? What do we need to…