"Relating to Following" (Psalm 1)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships. Tonight we look at how to grow in our relationship to God’s grace, by following him in his world. The message of the Bible is that God loves us where we are, but also loves us too much to leave us there.  God rescues us into a new way of living, a good life– a life of discipleship.  The good life comes not simply by living  for God, but by living through God. The good life is a following life.  The following life is described in Psalm 1. I want to explain what this Psalm is saying about how God intends us to grow as we walk with him. QUOTES “Now, once again, what God cares about is not exactly our actions. What he cares about is that we should be creatures of a certain kind or quality—the kind of creatures He intended us to be—creatures related to Himself in a certain way.” -- C. S. Lewis“Sanctification-making someone holy—is the work which God does: to separate his people from what they were by nature in sin, and to transform them so that their lives reflect his own being and character... God is restoring in our lives the image which we were created to reflect.”— Sinclair Ferguson“God is the only one who never changes— he’s always changing us.” -- Jen Wilkin"Sanctification-making someone holy- is the work which God does: to separate his people from what they were by nature in sin, and to transform them so that their lives reflect his own being and character. This is why sanctification is so central to the New Testament's teaching. God is restoring in our lives the image which we were created to reflect.” — Sinclair Ferguson