When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as He truly is - an endless reservoir of fascination - boredom becomes impossible.In heaven we'll be filled with joy and eternal pleasures.

Where is the best place you have ever gone? What is that bucket list destination that you have dreamed about? For the next couple of weeks, I want us to think about a destination. It is not the beach, the mountains, or the lake. It is not a bucket list destination, but it is an ultimate one. It is talked about in the book of Hebrews.

Where is the best place you have ever gone? What is that bucket list destination that you have dreamed about? For the next couple of weeks, I want us to think about a destination. It is not the beach, the mountains, or the lake. It is not a bucket list destination, but it is an ultimate one. It is talked about in the book of Hebrews.

Rev. Ronnie West as he talks about Celebrate Recovery, and how we should not let fear immobilize us, but we should move forward doing what God wants us to do.

Rev. Ronnie West as he talks about Celebrate Recovery, and how we should not let fear immobilize us, but we should move forward doing what God wants us to do.

I think as I have gone through this series the thing that has struck me is that I do not think enough on the promises of God, step out in faith enough on the promises of God. I am guessing the same is true for most of us. Why is that? Do we just not believe in promises anymore?

These promises hold everything we need for whatever we faced last week, or will deal with in the coming week. They have everything we need to live life on purpose, not alone, with strength and wisdom. God’s promises are everything, and everything is yes in Jesus.

I think as I have gone through this series the thing that has struck me is that I do not think enough on the promises of God, step out in faith enough on the promises of God. I am guessing the same is true for most of us. Why is that? Do we just not believe in promises anymore?

These promises hold everything we need for whatever we faced last week, or will deal with in the coming week. They have everything we need to live life on purpose, not alone, with strength and wisdom. God’s promises are everything, and everything is yes in Jesus.

My guess is every one of us here has known the anxiety, the fear of being left, and not only left, but maybe left for good, because that is how you think when you are four. Don’t we all stand on the sidewalk at some point between the age of maybe 4-8 and wonder if our parents remembered they were to pick us up. Getting left is awful. We should be able to imagine how the disciples felt when Jesus straight up told them He was going to leave them. These are guys, as imperfect as they might be, have devoted everything they are and have to Jesus. They have followed Him for 3 years. They did leave all to follow Him. They were for a time probably unparalleled in their devotion to Christ, and it has cost them. And now He says He’s leaving! Wait! What! What about the kingdom? What about making everything right? It’s still a mess in this world, and You’re just leaving? Let’s listen to this conversation.

My guess is every one of us here has known the anxiety, the fear of being left, and not only left, but maybe left for good, because that is how you think when you are four. Don’t we all stand on the sidewalk at some point between the age of maybe 4-8 and wonder if our parents remembered they were to pick us up. Getting left is awful. We should be able to imagine how the disciples felt when Jesus straight up told them He was going to leave them. These are guys, as imperfect as they might be, have devoted everything they are and have to Jesus. They have followed Him for 3 years. They did leave all to follow Him. They were for a time probably unparalleled in their devotion to Christ, and it has cost them. And now He says He’s leaving! Wait! What! What about the kingdom? What about making everything right? It’s still a mess in this world, and You’re just leaving? Let’s listen to this conversation.

We have all been wronged and treated unfairly. I think there are injustices we end up laughing at, move on from, and really, just forget about all together. But some aren’t that easy. There are injustices that change the course of life. Injustices that left us alone, left us with pain, left us without the ability to trust anyone. God cares about what has happened to us, and He has a way through it and a promise to hold onto. Look with me at Romans 12. Our focus is going to be verses 17-21, but I want to begin reading in verse 9.