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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“Would you like fries with that?” isn’t so far from “May I pray with you?” As Christians, we are called to a life of servitude and humility. Jesus modeled that when He washed his disciples’ feet at The Last Supper.
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Today I’m doing something a little different on my blog: an interview with one of my fellow writer-friends, Chip Mattis, whose new children’s book, Under the Dancing Tree (Elk Lake Publishing), is about to launch.
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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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