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Secondhand Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

God has offered us firsthand knowledge of His love, His grace, and His power. Yet so often, we too easily settle for someone else's descriptions, the Cliff notes from another's spiritual journey. We are content for "God-experts" to do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And like any secondhand information, after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates...

but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails” (Prov. 19:21). God is to be obeyed. But not for the blessings that might come in this life. God is to be obeyed because that is the proper response to an Almighty God. Obedience reminds us that we are the servants, He is the master. It’s not a way to get God to do something for us. In fact, obedience isn’t about getting anything; it’s about giving everything. Obedience does indeed lead us to blessing—God Himself, the greatest blessing of all. In the wake
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