Marriage, family, friendship, profession, church, strangers, clubs, citizenship, travel, vacation and being alone pretty much cover most everything we are involved in that demand relational exchange from day to day. The risen Lord wants us to experience Him working in each. God's Word speaks to each of them and they are the arena in which we practice His freedom. They are the exacting daily structures Scripture directs us to experience looking forward.

You can subdivide each of them…

The mindset of 'looking forward' is the way of Jesus, His way and really the only way when you get right down to it. 'Looking forward' is the way of freedom as he defines it by His life, death and Resurrection. His entire mission was always one of freeing us from what the world, the flesh and the devil were doing to imprison us, look beyond the self to Him and what we could become when we let Him lead the way.

OK, so what are the world-flesh-devil's 'prison bars' that keep us from…

We, each of us, you and I, are history, His story, Jesus' story, in the making. This is our purpose written in His blood shed for us on the Cross and delivered to us personally in His Resurrection. His Cross and Resurrection prove we were and are intended to be His image and likeness not only in this world but in His forever Kingdom. He is the focus and being the focus means we follow Him with our mind, heart and spirit ready to make Him known in every next moment, every next event and every…

Born. In the secular world the use of that word is widely distributed. There are born winners and losers. There are those who are considered born to be musicians, painters, athletes and professionals of all kinds. Then, of course, born again. Even there, it's secular use is to talk about the revival or change of a career. Someone who has found a hobby or a job they can't wait to get to will say, “I was born for this.” Think about yourself in this world. What were you born to…