It’s Wednesday. I’m grateful Rich Dixon is here:

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I hope you took a moment last time to listen to Kristen’s beautiful lyrics.

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We cycle to bring hope and freedom to kids rescued from human trafficking.

For our final devotion in 2015, I asked Dick Foth for some thoughts about hope and freedom. Dick said following Jesus is a journey in which the notion of “place” is a big deal. He said Jesus made this offer:

I’ll leave My place.

I’ll come to your place.

I’ll take your place.

And then, we’ll go together to My place.

Such a simple, profound image.

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I wrote a post to capture a few of the thoughts from our remarkable discussion that evening.

• Jesus meets us where we are. He walks into our place, joins us in our humanity, and gently redirects us toward a life of freedom. Toward a new way of seeing things, a new character.
• Along the way, He assures us He’s got a place for us – now and forever.
• He offers authentic hope – a confident expectation about the future based on faith that He keeps His promises.
• Following Jesus takes us places we never dreamed we would go and gives us ideas we never thought we would have.

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On this day following a difficult election, perhaps we can bring into our place these words from the FREEDOM TOUR Theme Song:

This world’s gone crazy
It’s hard to believe
That tomorrow will be than today
Believe it anyway

The journey with Jesus looks different for each of us. But we are all headed for the same place. His place.