God loves me—the real me. He doesn’t love the “idea” of me, doesn’t love me in the abstract way, but the true, raw, unfiltered, bare-bones, no-frills soul parts. He loves even the parts I can’t mask or shove away in a corner.
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Confession time: I’m reformed people-pleaser. We keep a sign in our house that says, “God first, others second, self last.” At first I thought I put it there for my kids, but as I’ve come to realize it’s there just as much for me as for them. How about you—do you struggle putting God first?
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My daughter might not want to wake up in the morning, just like we might not want to stop doing whatever it is that is causing us to live outside God’s way, whether that’s addiction or stealing or whether that’s making food or money our idol. But make no mistake: God is calling us into the light.
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Sometimes, we get out of alignment with God, and problems begin—just like the pulled muscles and sore back I experienced thanks to my out-of-sync body.
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On being a good listener, a form of loving others as we’d want to be loved in return.
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Like my unwanted car payment, Jesus nailed my eternal debt to the cross, paying it off for good.
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He’s there with me—in the body aches and the headache, in the sniffles and the lethargy. In fact, it’s all OK. I know that God is glorified in my weakness. He shines through me.
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I know God loves the world, but does God care about me and my problems specifically?
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It was my favorite sweater, made me feel luxurious and lovely, yet I put off wearing it for just the right occasion—then moths got to it and it was gone for good. I’d wasted my gift. Can we do the same thing when it comes to our spiritual gifts, waste them?
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