Jesus, the place I desire to be more than any other in time or space is IN YOU.  There are some luxurious, beautiful, adventurous mountains, islands, and vacation spots around Your globe; however, I crave above everything to be IN YOU.  IN YOU is where everything I’ll ever need or want is located.  IN YOU it does not matter what happens in this life – I will still have beautiful fellowship, safety, peace and joy IN YOU.  IN YOU I have forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.  What a blessing – You are the God of the universe yet You allow me to be miraculously and magnificently IN YOU.  I do not deserve it – it is based 100% on Your love for me.  It is not because I am that lovable; rather, it is because You are a God of the greatest love imaginable.  I never want to let Satan con me with his cheap tricks to trip my fleshly trigger with drugs, alcohol, possessions, money, sex, power, control, education, ego, people, career, etc. and pull me away from being IN YOU.  I always want to be IN YOU because that is THE purpose and meaning of my entire life.  If I am IN YOU I am exactly where I want to be from here to eternity.  Read Romans 6:1-4; Ephesians 1:3-14; Philippians 3:7-11.  Then listen to an awesome song by MercyMe entitled: IN YOU.

P.S. Imagine if you took a few minutes each day to forward these morning scripture/song devotionals to co-workers, family, friends, etc.? How hard is that? Maybe they will help a loved one come closer to Jesus. Maybe when this crazy virus goes away they will come to visit Walnut Hill Church of Christ and one day go to heaven.

P.P.S. – Tonight we will study the end of Revelation 6

Romans 6:1-4

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Ephesians 1:3-14

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

Philippians 3:7-11

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.