“Jesus, may we rest content in being known and loved by you today. Everything else is ‘gravy'” (Scotty Smith).

I love that. It puts it all into perspective. If God is for us, who can be against us? If God is on our side, what can man do to us? If He didn’t spare His only Son, how will He not give us everything else we need?

I think the problem is that a lot of what causes us to lose sleep at night is gravy. We get so caught up in the tyranny of the urgent that we forget to keep the main thing the main thing — God so loved the world.

God so loved me that I couldn’t possibly stay the same person I was yesterday. A love like that can’t help but be transforming as I the beloved become more like the One who loves me.

God so loved you that in that moment of realizing the measure of that love you realized that you couldn’t go back to being who you used to be, even if you wanted to.

God’s love for the world is so amazing and so divine that it demands a response. You can’t come against a love like that and remain neutral. You have to pick a side — either for or against, but not neutral.

And everything else is gravy.