Hi Everyone!
It’s Friday!!
I hope you all have had a great week & have fun things planned for the weekend!
Today I wanted to share another devotional from Jesus Calling. This devotional has so many wonderful letters written in the words of Jesus to its readers explaining His Love for us. I thought they would be great for this series, so I have picked out a few to share throughout the rest of this month!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have…
“I LOVE YOU regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are totally different issues, which you need to sort out. I love you with an everlasting Love that flows our from eternity without limits or conditions. I have clothed you in My robe of righteousness, and this is an eternal transaction: Nothing and no one can reverse it. Therefore, your accomplishment as a Christian has no bearing on My Love for you. Even your ability to assess how well you are doing on a given day is flawed. Your limited human perspective and the condition of your body, with its mercurial variations, distort your evaluations.”
Bring your performance anxiety to Me, and receive in its place My unfailing Love. Try to stay conscious of My loving Presence with you in all that you do, and I will direct your steps.”
(Jesus Calling, April 19th, pg. 114)
Isn’t this such a beautiful reminder?
There are so many days when I feel like I am failing or like I’m not doing as much as I should be as a Christian. I think to myself “I’m not spending enough time in my Bible” or “I should be spending more time in prayer.” Sometimes I need to be reminded that God Loves me no matter how many hours I spend in my Bible or in prayer each week. That no matter what I do, I can’t make him love me anymore that He already does.
A woman at our church prayed for me one time at a women’s retreat & I think she explained it to me best…
She asked me “When you look at your own children, do you see all of their faults & failures? Do you look at them and remember all of times that they’ve messed up?” My answer of course was “No.” She replied, “That is how your God, your heavenly father sees you. He doesn’t look at you & think about all of the mistakes you’ve made & things that you’ve done wrong. Instead, He remembers all of the wonderful things that you’ve done. He remembers all of the times He has been so proud of you. The only difference is that He loves you even more than you love your own children.”
Wow! That really hit home with me! I think for the first time I really understood the His Love for me!
I hope you all have felt encouraged! I wanna leave you with a video of one of my favorite worship songs that I think describes His Love beautifully!
I hope you enjoy…
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Have a great weekend!!!
