Hello again! It's been too long since I left off, oops.
Let's go back back to that letter. I really love that letter. :)
So this great letter talks about how God loves me. Let me start with that. God loves me. Have you ever just taken a moment to sit and just feel God love you? Do it now, just let Him wrap you up in His presence and love.
It's easy for me to do right now as the bright sun is shining on me, a relief from the cold, dark winter days. But when that sun goes away, when life gets rough, it's easy to forget that God loves you.
I read a devotion today, out of a book called It's a Wonderful (Imperfect) Life by Joan C. Webb. The heading was titled "Precious to God". The verse she incorporated was Matthew 6:26...the one about the birds, who don't sow or reap, or store anything away, because our Heavenly Father feeds them. It also states that we are even more valuable than the birds.
It was a simple devotion and cut right to the point, our Father loves us and will provide for us. That's all we need to know. The thing is....we get all caught up in worrying...about anything and everything! What good is it? We have already been promised that God will take care of us...
A few pages later there's another devotion about Accepting My Humanness. In other words, weakness and the verse for this one was 2 Corinthians 13:4. It goes like this, "Jesus was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in Him, yet by God's power we will live." Is it our need to avoid weakness that we try to depend on ourselves? Why is it so hard for us to accept that we are, in fact, human? I honestly have no clue what the answer to that is. Maybe it's pride? But it seems even deeper than that. I do know that it wears on us, trying to be more than we were wired to be. I also know that a person is at their finest when they have given up on themselves completely. I don't mean given up on life, I don't want everyone to walk around all depressed, but I mean, they've come to terms with their abilities as humans. They realize their own limitations and have learned that God is most effective in their life when they are on the ground.
Let me finish up with this letter, if I keep writing about every little aspect I could write a book! What an idea. :P
I love when He says, "Let no man be the judge of your heart for I know your love for Me." I know it says in the Bible that man judges what's on the outside but God judges the heart....but I think sometimes, people perceive actions as intentions and judge us based on that. I know I've made mistakes that make me look bad. But like I said earlier, we are only human. We've all seen the movies where one character is trying to make things right, but ends up creating a huge fiasco....sometimes that's how life is. There's nothing we can do about it but just accept that we slipped up and live with it. But what about the people that start throwing accusations around, how do we deal with that? I think that by letting people judge our hearts, or intentions, we end up living up to their judgments. We become bitter, don't you think?
Another example....I'll use a personal experience. I remember awhile ago, I had been getting stressed out for some reason or another. Well I ended up withdrawing a bit, or alot....haha. Either way, I spent quite a bit of time holed up in my room and barely said two words to my mom. Well, when she confronted me she said things like "I didn't really love God, or I would be showing it".....stuff like that. Well of course I loved God! And at the time, I was mad; I let her judge my heart. I actually felt guilty, and started thinking maybe I didn't love God. This is what He's talking about, don't let them judge your heart. God knows we love Him. He understands that we're human. It's OK.
So don't give Satan that foothold when others throw accusations around. Be confident that God knows.
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