It wasn’t until I was much older that I truly understood that Salvation was more than a get out of hell free card.
I accepted Christ when I was a little girl. Partly because I had the fear of God in me but also because even as a child I understood the value of being loved no matter what you do.
I have leaned on that truth constantly throughout my life.
I often identified with Mary the mother of Jesus when it says she held these things in her heart Luke 2:19). I am very much like that. The words that people say to me or sow into me go straight to my heart, both good and bad. The good things can take me high but the bad things always take me real low and they linger.
Being told you are not good enough even when you did your best or being excluded or being disqualified for no reason or being tossed aside for making a mistake messes with you.
I often go to God in these moments God often comes to me and whispers to me but I love you, you are enough.
This relationship has been crucial in my life because I am able to lean on the fact that if no one else loves me, if no one else sees my purpose and value, God does.
His Word says
You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:13-14)
I have a plan for you (Jeremiah 29:11)
You are so important to me that I know the number of the hairs on your head (Luke 12:7)
I will never leave you or forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6)
I love you so much I sent my son to die for you and that is Priceless (John 3:16-17)
Nothing can separate you from my love (Romans 8:35-39)
Salvation not only saves you from the fire it gives you a friend, a comforter, a healer, a way maker, a life changer. You can leave and He will still be there. You can be on a sinning binge, messing all the way up and you come back to God and say Lord I messed up, please forgive me and you are forgiven, the sin forgotten (Micah 7:18-20) and His promises still true.
Sin can mess this relationship up. Not because God leaves us but because we leave God. God is perfect and oftentimes when we are doing our own thing and not following his example we move away from God cuz we want to do what we doing without rebuke. We don’t want to think twice about it or feel bad about it.
It can happen slowly but eventually you look up and realize that stuff is just a mess and you don’t feel the presence of God like you used to.
When we say that sin keeps us from God we get it wrong. It’s not that He leaves us, because He has promised to never leave, it’s that we walk way from Him and the distance between us is the number of our unrepented sin.
For me though distance from God is torturous and often I run back because life is sweeter, I’m stronger, I fight harder, I love deeper, my self-confidence and self-worth is higher because I know who I am in Christ. I am loved and supported and seen, not forgotten. Aren’t these all the things we want in life?
I accepted Christ when I was a little girl. Partly because I had the fear of God in me but also because even as a child I understood the value of being loved no matter what you do.
I have leaned on that truth constantly throughout my life.
I often identified with Mary the mother of Jesus when it says she held these things in her heart Luke 2:19). I am very much like that. The words that people say to me or sow into me go straight to my heart, both good and bad. The good things can take me high but the bad things always take me real low and they linger.
Being told you are not good enough even when you did your best or being excluded or being disqualified for no reason or being tossed aside for making a mistake messes with you.
This relationship has been crucial in my life because I am able to lean on the fact that if no one else loves me, if no one else sees my purpose and value, God does.
His Word says
You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:13-14)
I have a plan for you (Jeremiah 29:11)
You are so important to me that I know the number of the hairs on your head (Luke 12:7)
I will never leave you or forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6)
I love you so much I sent my son to die for you and that is Priceless (John 3:16-17)
Nothing can separate you from my love (Romans 8:35-39)
Salvation not only saves you from the fire it gives you a friend, a comforter, a healer, a way maker, a life changer. You can leave and He will still be there. You can be on a sinning binge, messing all the way up and you come back to God and say Lord I messed up, please forgive me and you are forgiven, the sin forgotten (Micah 7:18-20) and His promises still true.
Sin can mess this relationship up. Not because God leaves us but because we leave God. God is perfect and oftentimes when we are doing our own thing and not following his example we move away from God cuz we want to do what we doing without rebuke. We don’t want to think twice about it or feel bad about it.
It can happen slowly but eventually you look up and realize that stuff is just a mess and you don’t feel the presence of God like you used to.
When we say that sin keeps us from God we get it wrong. It’s not that He leaves us, because He has promised to never leave, it’s that we walk way from Him and the distance between us is the number of our unrepented sin.
For me though distance from God is torturous and often I run back because life is sweeter, I’m stronger, I fight harder, I love deeper, my self-confidence and self-worth is higher because I know who I am in Christ. I am loved and supported and seen, not forgotten. Aren’t these all the things we want in life?
I invite you to have a deeper relationship with God. Not the one that people said you deserve or have to work to get. The relationship that God has always wanted with us. The one that HE had with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
݉♭And He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other, has ever known.♭♯
Accept Christ today. Just confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, Believe it in your heart and Accept the gift and you are saved. Don't miss out on the unconditional love of God. The Gift of Relationship.
The Unlikely Missionary
DHW
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