Is there a choice you are currently entertaining that feels like gain but is actually moving you toward destruction?

Today's Takeaway question is: Is there a gap between who you appear to be in this congregation and what is actually happening in your private life?

Have you been waiting for closeness with God to arrive — and what would it look like to begin pursuing it with the kind of hunger this verse describes?

Is there an area of your life where the method of your gaining has required you to look away from something you know isn't right, and what is that costing you beneath the surface?

In your parenting, whether your children are young or grown, are you making decisions based on what brings peace now, or what builds the person they're becoming?