JUNE 8, 2016

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” 
― James Baldwin

2 CHRONICLES 26-28

Pride proves to be the downfall of Uzziah...before he became powerful he was obedient to God.

His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.

16But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, 

JOHN 17

The purpose of Christ revealed in prayer for his disciples...

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 

JOURNAL 

Jesus affirms that the Kingdom of Heaven exists in knowing God and in knowing Christ. To understand and know Jesus' purpose and then to experience that within our own hearts brings us into the Kingdom of God. It becomes the way we know that we are part of God.

8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

~ Philippians 4:8-9