For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. – Hebrews 3:4 (NLT)

You might have a textbook or seen a book that promotes evolution and states how man and the world around us evolved into what it is today.

However, in the Bible, we see a different story. In the Bible, we see the design of God. We see God’s plan and how He created the world with a purpose. The world is too complex and the organisms in it are too complicated to have just happened due to chance.

Every house and building has a builder. You don’t assume that a house happened by chance. Instead, you know that someone spent time building it and planning it.

The same is true for us. Someone had to put us together. The complexity in each of our cells screams that we are not accidents. We have been created by God and God wants to know us in a deep and real way. So today, challenge yourself to really think about what it means that you’ve been created. That means that someone cared enough about you to put you here in the time in history that you’re at. That someone knew that you had something this world needed and that you have value because He created you.

Don’t believe that you’re not important. Instead realize that you and the people around you are important to God because He took the time to make them so wonderfully complex.

Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. – Ephesians 6:7

It can be really easy to fall into the trap of pleasing others. It’s easy to want to make other people happy and never let them down. However, there’s really only one person you should be trying to please, God. In your work at school or on the job, everything you do, you should be giving it your all.

You should be striving to work with enthusiasm and giving as much as you can. So no matter how much you hate school or your job, remember that you’re working for God. Let Him shine through everything you do. Look for ways to do your best and work hard.

Today’s Truth: Look for ways to let God shine through in everything you do.

You’ll be glad you put in the extra effort. Choose today to be a person that works for God, not for men.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, – Gal 5:22 (NLT)

Have you ever tried to build character in your life, but failed? Maybe you tried really hard to stop being unkind, but the more you focused on trying to not do it, the worse it got, and the more unkind you were.

Trying to do the right thing and build character in your life can be challenging. Even though it’s not always easy to be a person of character, it’s the right thing to do. So how do we go from being unkind to kind? How do we get from being upset to being at peace? How do we let these fruit of the spirit rule our lives?

The answer is in focusing on the Holy Spirit. This verse says that the Holy Spirit produces fruit in our lives. So instead of focusing on how many times you mess up each day by not being patient or kind, focus instead on God. Realize that He has put His Holy Spirit in you and with His help you can work toward being kind. You don’t have to work on being kind on your own, rather you have a helper to partner together to do it.

Choose today to believe that you’ve got what it takes to be a person that is loving, full of joy, and living out the fruit of the spirit. Focus on God and realize that with His help, you can develop godly character!

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? – Numbers 23:19 (NIV)

Have you noticed how people can often let us down? Our friends can disappoint us. When friends let us down, it can be really hard. However, we can’t take the let down from friends or other people in our lives and put that onto God. God is not human. He doesn’t change His mind.

God doesn’t one day like you and say you have value, then the next day after you sin big and lie to your mom decide that you’re no longer valuable. No. God always thinks you’re valuable. He always sees your best.

Today’s Truth: God Will Always Come Through For You

God isn’t like a friend or parent who promises something really big and then isn’t able to come through with the promise. God isn’t like that. When you see a promise in God’s word, you can count on that promise coming to pass. God’s word is always truth!

People can let us down. There is no doubt about that. God can’t. He always comes through for His kids. So today, if you’ve questioned the goodness and the dependability of God, know that He cares for you. Boost your confidence in His goodness and His ability to do what He says He will do. God will always come through for you!

It can be really hard to stand up for God, can’t it? What do you do, when all your friends are making choices to not follow after God? How do you stand up for what’s right when it feels like you’re the only one?

The main thing you can do is to be strong in your relationship with God. You should be desiring to spend time in His presence and in His word. Guard your relationship with God more than anything else.

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. – 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NIV)

Today’s verse tells us to stand firm in the faith. That means standing when it feels like you’re all alone. It means that you might have to say no to some things that aren’t godly things and be different than the majority. And that takes courage.

It’s not always easy standing up for God and for truth, but it is the right thing to do. So determine in your heart that you’re not going to be swayed by peer pressure. Instead, look to God, and let your relationship with Him hold you strong when it feels like you’re all alone.

Have you ever given any thought to the way you see the world? Why do you make the decisions that you make? How did you make the friends that you have? You might say by accident, or maybe even just due to chance. But really, when it comes down to it, we all make our decisions based upon something. That something is often referred to as your worldview.

Your worldview influences every area of your life. It influences your decisions, how you see things, and the course you take in your life. And depending on your worldview, you’ll make decisions differently than someone who has a different worldview than you.

Your worldview is a little like a pair of sunglasses. If you put those sunglasses on, things are going to look different to you than they might to someone else who isn’t wearing them. You might see things darker than they really are due to the tinted lenses, or perhaps if they’re colored lenses, you might see things different colors than someone who isn’t wearing the same glasses.

Your worldview is how you see the world. And it influences every decision and everything that you do. And as Christians, we’re encouraged to place our thoughts and mind on the things of God. That means that we should be striving to base our worldview on God’s word. Check out this verse.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. – Colossians 3:2 (NIV)

So if we’re to be following after Jesus, we should let Him help us set our worldview. We should be getting His thoughts, His ideas, and His direction for our future.

Rather than rely on our own knowledge, which can be flawed, we should be seeking to know Him. We should be aligning our thoughts and ideas with the Bible, and let the Bible be the source of our worldview.

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