Today, as Pastor Ford continues to teach us that every praise we have belongs to our God, he will point out that often what keeps us from praising God is that fact that we have an incomplete comprehension of God.  And that’s one thing King David expressed in Psalms—he’d experienced a comprehensive view of God and had discovered how incomprehensible, and worthy of praise God actually is.  Learn more when you join us for today’s Treasured Truth.

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In this new year, we can be the success that Christ wants us to be if we realize that He’s the reason for our success.  And we need to understand that we serve The Great High Priest, Who is personal to us.  He’ll be for us whatever we need Him to be. 

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Who do we serve?  Christ is described in scripture as “The Great High Priest” Who is present in our lives.  He proved through Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego that He’s a very present help in the time of trouble.  But here’s the problem—we don’t really understand Who He is and many of us don’t recognize Him when He comes to us in our trouble.

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At the beginning of this new year, we don’t need resolutions or a list of things to accomplish.  We need a revelation.  We need to understand Who we have in Christ and then confidently cling to Him.  

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One of the most important questions you can ask yourself in life is who you’re going to serve.  That’s because the answer to that question determines the answers to any and every other question you will ever have in life.  And as we begin this study in Hebrews 4, Pastor Ford will remind those of us who have decided to serve Christ, Who it is that we are serving. 

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Biblical leadership requires compliance with Christ’s command to love others.  And true biblical compassion will result in a desire to serve and meet the needs of others.  Because when you love someone, your perspective about them changes, and it becomes easy to serve them.  

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Today, Pastor Ford will encourage us to freely praise God and one way we can do that is to sing to Him!  Even if we can’t carry a tune in a bucket, or we don’t know a piano key from a car key, we still need to sing! 

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When we are confident about who we are in Christ, then we will more readily serve others.  As believers, we are children of the King and joint heirs with Jesus.  So, the act of humbling ourselves and serving others doesn’t diminish that fact or demean who we are.

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When we say that we love others, we should ask ourselves, what is it costing us?  If we really love others like we think we do, then that love will require sacrifice.  Sometimes it costs us things like our pride or our dignity to take on the role of humility and serve people sacrificially.  

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The compassion that Jesus had that caused Him to serve was an intellectual compassion.  He willingly chose to love people and serve them.  And as believers, we need to think with the mind of Christ and learn from His example as we strive to serve others. 

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