Ephesians 1:3–14 shows us the beautiful truth of our salvation in three tenses. We have been redeemed and are in Christ, but await our full inheritance.
If our value was based on size, we would be of hardly any worth at all compared to the sun, moon, and stars. But God has made us in His image and chosen to rescue us from our sin and restore our relationship with Him. This is what gives us worth.
John 17 gives us the privilege of witnessing an intimate conversation between God the Son and God the Father. Jesus prays not only for His disciples then but for us as well.
Unlike other religions, Christianity reveals the Triune nature of our glorious God. This is mysterious in itself—but God goes even farther and draws us into this loving relationship with Himself.
The Holy Trinity, the imago dei, and our in-Christ life all provide the necessary foundations for a biblically based community, a community rooted in an understanding that every person's greatest need is to know God.
In part 2 of his "Devotional Spirituality" series during his Monday Night Study, Ken Boa shares the principle that we steadily become conformed to that which we most love and admire.