Working from the Right Scorecard 1: Living in Love - Revelation 2:1-7.

I had to work hard for my grades in university. I studied very diligently. A few times, though, what I had chosen to study was not on the exam. At the time, I felt I had blown it. It was much more helpful when an instructor told us where to focus our studies. When there's a review done of our lives, when we appear before God, it would be very bad having lived our many years to find out that we focussed on the wrong thing. For things we worked hard on, achievements that meant so much to us, to not even come up in the review, while other things we hardly paid attention to get lifted up. In the next 7 weeks we'll be looking at letters to the 7 churches in Revelation 2-3, where God reviews the things he praises and criticise and calls us to. My heart's desire is for us all to be working from the right scorecard, so that when we appear before him, we won't be surprised and we'll already be leaning into what is most valuable. Today, Revelation 2:1-7. I called the message "Living in love". The top of the scorecard, guaranteed, is how did you love people?Extra reading: Hosea 2:14-20Preacher: Bill Dyck