“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” Ephesians 2:10

Over 200 years ago the great theologian and preacher, John Wesley, came up with a set of 22 questions that he would ask himself at the end of each day in his devotions. These questions are worth us pondering today.

Jesus also comes to us, calling us to love one another, to care for God’s beloved children. See his abundant way of life, move beyond your failure, and love other people. To love Jesus is to love others, the sheep of his flock, in the way Jesus loves them. Listen. Can you hear him say to you, “Do you love me? Then care for my flock.”

Whatever you need in the moment, your spiritual soundtrack of old hymns is there to fill your mind and your heart. Go ahead and sing out loud – God loves a cheerful singer!

The story* of In the Bulb reveals how our hope of resurrection shapes our lives, especially as we ponder the ending of our lives on this earth and our resurrection to eternal life.

Jesus said to her (Mary), “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. – John 11:25-26

So we do not glorify the cross; we do not romanticize the cross. If the cross was the end of the story, we would not still be gathering to observe it two thousand years later. Instead, redemption is found in the Resurrection. It is in the empty tomb where we find hope and the cross is given new meaning.