1. Every day with Jesus is a fresh opportunity to take another step toward Him.

• Ezekiel incrementally walked deeper into the river. He went from standing just outside of the water, to eventually swimming in water where his feet could no longer touch down. How deep have you waded out into the river right now?
• Ezekiel did not reach the deep end in one step. It took deliberate steps, packed with intention. Why doesn’t God just thrust us into the deep end all at once?
• If every day is a fresh opportunity to take another step toward Jesus, how does that impact the way you see the day in front of you right now?

2. The farther we go with Jesus, the more control we must relinquish.

• Ezekiel went from observation, to limited experience with control, to experience without any control. Why does going deeper require less control, not more?
• Repentance is the first step in our response to encountering Jesus. What correlation does repentance have with giving up control?
• If going deeper into a life with Jesus requires us to relent from our desire for control, how does that impact your understanding of what has kept you right where you are?

3. Creation was not made only to sustain us. It was made to reveal God to us, to move us to seek Him, and for us to enjoy.

• If creation was made to move us to seek Him, how does that impact the way you look at the world around you?
• Are you enjoying what God has created, or is His creation simply sustaining you?
• How can you slow down to reconnect with a creation that was designed not only for you to enjoy, but to lead you into the worship of its Creator?

4. There is no other place a human being can truly thrive than in the very atmosphere we were made for: His presence.

• Moses told the Lord, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.” What was Moses actually saying?
• A peach tree does not stop being a peach tree just because it moves to Alaska. The fruitful potential of its identity remains intact as it withers fruitless in the wrong climate. Where have you been trying to grow outside of the atmosphere you were designed for?
• If His presence is meant to be our permanent dwelling place and not only a place we visit, how does that reality impact your understanding of what your soul actually needs to thrive?

5. God cannot fellowship or share space with what is not like Him.

• Why were Adam and Eve removed from Eden? Hint: It wasn’t because God stopped loving them.
• If God cannot share space with what is not like Him, how does that impact your view of what Jesus did to reunite us?
• God’s invitation to “be holy” as “He is holy”, is not a command to follow a list of regulations, but to be transformed into His image and likeness. Does this change your understanding of the call to Holiness?

6. God made man in the image of the man that He Himself would one day become to redeem him.

• Revelation 13:8 calls Jesus the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Before God ever picked up a handful of dirt to form a man, He had already decided to die for him. What impact does that have on your understanding of the worth of mankind in the eyes of God?
• Acts 20:28 says God purchased the church with His own blood. How can God shed His own blood?
• You were made in the image of your Redeemer. Redemption is in your DNA. You were literally made to be redeemed. How does that change how you see yourself?

7. Jesus is the fullness of God in human form. He is the fullness of God’s expression to humanity.

• First Corinthians 15:45 calls Jesus the last Adam. Through the life of the first Adam came death, but through the death of the last Adam came life. Why did God have to come as a man?
• John saw a throne set in heaven, and One seated on it. Who is the one seated on the throne?
• Colossians 2:9 says that all of God is in Jesus. 1 Timothy 3:16 says that God was manifest in the flesh. Does this mean that all that God is, is identifiably resident in Jesus Christ?