When you make worship and time with God the center of your life, that’s when you start seeing His faithfulness in all the specific and tangible details of your life. Your time with God doesn’t just affect your “spiritual” life – it transforms how you see and experience everything else.
The moms reading this: when you love your kids and raise them in the Lord, you’re worshiping in a very concrete way. Husbands: when you die to yourselves and sacrificially love your wives, you’re living out the concrete reality of the gospel. Those with jobs: you get to be the hands and feet of the theology you believe.
God’s promises aren’t just for Sunday morning – they’re resources for Monday morning problems. But they flow from the center of consistent worship and meeting with God outward to every area of your life.
The inheritance Israel received foreshadowed our eternal home, but just like they had to take possession of their promised land, we have to live in our new identity as God’s children right now, today, in the middle of a broken world.