God is absolutely obsessed with us.  God spends all day and all night thinking about us.  There is not one moment in God’s day in which God is not 100% focused on us.  God spends every waking moment contemplating what we’re doing and where we’re going.

And God’s awareness of our ups and downs has given us some of the most profound stories about how God, and the world, works.  We call them parables. 

This Sunday we’ll hear 5 of them.  They’re anecdotes taken from everyday life that tell us how God’s deepest desire - to walk and talk with us – actually fulfills our deepest desires.  Jesus’ story – about His desperate love for the world – is a story He longs to tell and re-tell through the average, the everyday, and the mundane.

What would our lives be like if we thought about God as much as God thinks about us?  Or what would they be like if we looked at the everyday things all around us and let God talk to us through them?  What would it be like if we understood that every arrival, departure, conversation, and interaction had a message?

Jesus found deep insight into God simply by looking around Him and letting God talk.  I bet we can too.

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Reading

Radical – David Platt

God is Back – Micklethwaite and Wooldridge

A Place Called Freedom – Ken Follett