I love the picture Ephesians 1:3-14 paints about the spiritual blessings we have in Christ. How often do we leave our peace and joy on the table trying to do things our own way?

And yet there’s grace: grace to step into the fullness of all that God has for us in Christ by

Knowing Him through His word
Resting in His Presence
Fellowship in His body, the church, and
Living our lives as worship

“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with ever fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity