Our view of the afterlife will have a profound impact on how we live our lives in the present, but the choices we make in this life will have an impact for all of eternity.

How do you engage with a God who is both invisible and inaudible? In Psalm 19, we see that David’s constant communion with creation, gave him remarkable insight not just into nature –but into the nature of God who is constantly revealing Himself to us, speaking to us and pursuing us.

We often struggle to feel like worshiping God, but through the heart of David, God shows us the pathway into His own heart, by calling us to engage all of who we are, in light of all of He has done for us, and all He is to us.

We experience anger and frustration with God when we feel He has abandoned us in our pain and sorrow, but God restores in us a sense of His love and presence when we are honest about how we feel with Him and acknowledge our need for Him.

We struggle with being emotionally honest with God, because we do not want to admit how broken we really are. But David invites us into the honesty that God desires by revealing to us that He can be trusted with all of our brokenness.

At the root of all sin is a diminishment of God in our hearts. God is always in loving pursuit after us, even when we push him into the corners of our life.

The following message was given by Pastor Chris Kim at the ICC Family service.

It is in his love and mercy for us that God exposes the sins that we try to hide from ourselves and others. This is to lead us to confession of our sin and bring us to a place of God’s forgiveness and wholeness.

The story of David is the story of a person growing more and more alive to God and his love for Mephibosheth demonstrates a heart that is growing in its pursuit of God.

The following message was given on Thrive Sunday and with the launch of Thrive@Work.