What does the cross mean to you?  Is it just a symbol used on a church building, or worn around your neck?  Philippians 2:6 and 8 speaks of Jesus like this:  “Who, being in very likeness God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped …

Some people wear a cross as a piece of jewelry, while others hang one inside their car.  For many it is only a religious symbol.  However the cross is far more than that!  It is central to all God has done for us.  The cross is ‘the power of God for everyone who believes.’

 

In Philippians 2:6-11 there is a beautiful hymn about Jesus, that was possibly sung by the early church.

Your life has purpose!  Do you remember as a child having many different ideas of what you wanted to do when you grew up?  Perhaps those ideas kept changing!  Within each of us though, is a desire to know what we have been created for – our purpose.

 

Often God gives us glimpses into this long before it happens.  Let’s look at the life of Abraham.