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I'm Wayne Jacobson, and this is Engage. So this is it. This is the last of the Engage videos that we're going to make. Could have kept making them. Could have turned this into a video blog, I guess, pretty easily, because lots of things we could say about this journey in Jesus. But it's time for you now to find your own wings on this journey and not need someone else to tell you what to do every couple of weeks. So this is going to be the last one. And if you've found your way into that beginning connection, then you're kind of ready to fly. If you haven't yet, I don't want you to be discouraged. I know for some people, you've listened to these videos, you've hoped something, whatever, would have taken place by now. And maybe you haven't got the connection yet that you want. This takes time. Don't be pressured into making it happen at the end of this series. This video series was never going to be the relationship for you. It's just an encouragement for you to find a way into it. If it hasn't happened yet, relax. You've got time. This always takes time. All the things that Jesus has to untangle in our hearts, whether it's the lies of the world or the lies of religion that have got us performing instead of relaxing into His reality. That's why Jesus told us to keep on asking, keep on knocking, keep finding your way in. Not because God makes it difficult. It's not that. It's because there's so much in us that's got to be settled before we can go on the kind of journey He wants for us. And if you've begun this journey, you know as well as I do that you've just begun. As Paul writes in praise for the Ephesians, I pray that you would know the height and breadth and depth of this love God has for you. It's like an ocean. It's like that. If you look at God as this vast ocean, the Pacific Ocean, God wants you to mind this depth of His love every day to just keep an eye out for Him. What insight is He giving you today? What is He dropping into your life? Maybe through a song. Maybe through a passing comment you hear somewhere. Maybe something that just stirs deep in your own being. This is a lifetime adventure. It's for us to explore who He is in the reality of your life and the challenges of it, in the hurts of it, in the joys of it. How is God making Himself known? How does He love me? How does He make His presence known in my life? And what conversations do I have with other people? I love Paul's expression that you would know together with all the saints the depth of this love. So there's conversations and relationships God will give you going forward that's going to open up His multifaceted greatness to you. I will tell you this. Beware of anybody who claims to be an expert, who thinks they've got all this figured out and can tell you how to do it and gives you a workbook to fill out and at the end of it, you're going to know Him. Beware of that. There's none of us that are an expert. We may be ankle deep into this reality. I might be after this part of my journey and that may even be generous. There's enough to explore here not only today, tomorrow, the rest of my life in this world. There's enough to explore here for eternity. To know God as He really is. To experience Him in His fullness. And Jesus said the purpose of all this for God was that He wanted His joy to be in us so that our joy could be full. This was about you coming to a sense of fullness in the reality of who He is. That's not circumstantial. That's not just going to work when life goes well and there's plenty of money in the bank account and all is good. His joy being in us is what we need most. When our child is sick, when we're unemployed, when we're suffering the rejection of good friends that we used to love and care about or betrayal. This is the joy that penetrates beyond the reality of our own circumstance. So I encourage you to go on this journey. There's so much to explore about God. Relax. Let it come to you in His time. Don't try to force it. Don't white-knuckle your way into something. Learn to relax into a greater reality. And then you're going to find that this God has wanted to engage you more than you've ever wanted to engage in. It may take time. It seeps into our life quite naturally. All we've got to do is keep looking. Keep seeking. Keep asking.