2 Timothy 1:9 (NIV)

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 

John 4:34 (NIV)

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Isaiah 53:6 (NIV)

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way

When you go your own way – you follow your selfish desires

Luke 15:11-13 (NIV)

Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end, it leads to death.

When you go your own way -You will always have a greater need

Luke 15:14-16 (NIV)

After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So, he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Luke 15:17-20

When he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!” I will set out and go I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father.

Luke 15:20

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 

Isaiah 53:5-6 NLT

But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us