While Ryan is away on vacation this July, we are having guest bloggers here at JustOneMore.info. This week’s guest is CrossPoint’s Minister to Students – Dave Snyder. Dave and his wife, Brooke, have one daughter, Eden, and have been at CrossPoint for just over 6 weeks. Dave enjoys reading, disc golf, and hanging with his sugar mama. You can find out more about Dave by following him on Twitter  - @DBoneSnyder.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:3-14

Take just a few moments and count how many times “In Him” appears in the text above.  I’ll wait as you read and count.

How many did you find?  I counted 6 times that phrase was used in the text.  (I hope my counting was correct!) In who or what do we center our focus?  It appears to me that it can be very easy to take out the supreme position of Christ in our lives with substitutes.  Here is a list of things that rob me of what my focus should be.

1. In my control of things
2. In music
3. In worrying
4. In disc golf
5. In coffee (yup, had to confess that one)

What would be on your list?  Be honest with yourself today.  Christ redeemed us from the curse of our own depravity by absorbing the wrath aimed at us.  Christ placed us in a position to have perfect righteousness in eternity.  Christ has offered us unceasing joy in His intercession on our behalf.  In Him we should walk.  In Him, we should talk.  In Him, we should worship.

Look at your list again.  Read Ephesians 1:3-14 again.  What will be your focus today?  May it be…In Him.