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Proverbs 9:6

“Leave your simple lives, and live…”

Jesus calls us to life

He calls us to leave our “simple lives”

Simple = ignorant, self-centered, predictable vanity

Jesus said directly, “I have come that you might have life, and life abundantly”

Jesus calls us to more

He has more for us

Abundantly more

He is not stingy

“Now to Him who is able to do Immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine…”

Our hearts search ferociously for life abundant

When that search is in the created, not the Creator, it is an endless treadmill after treadmill

God calls us to the roads, trails, and beaches He has for us

Feel Deeply, Live Fully, Lead Well

Jesus + Anything = Nothing

Jesus + Nothing = Everything, including Abundant Life beyond our imagination

Way beyond

“There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man that only God can fill.”

““What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées VII(425)