July 22, 2014
Years ago I participated in a Bible study that took me on a journey through God's promises and also His character. Through this study I came to realize that though I believed in God I very rarely believed Him. Or at least I rarely lived as though I believed Him. That study changed my life.
It still is changing my life, for since I am human, and lack the super power of "remembering-everything-I-learn-the-first-time-around-and-acting-on-it", God is frequently obliged to gently (sometimes not so) remind me of the things I was taught during that study.
One of the truths that I most often need reminding of is that "I am who God says I am." Contrary to my understanding that He sees me as a miserable failure, a maniac suffering from O.C.D., and socially inept (all ways I commonly see myself), God's view of me is flattering, humbling, and exhilarating. In fact, to Him I am BLESSED, CHOSEN, ADOPTED, ACCEPTED, REDEEMED, FORGIVEN, and most of all LOVED.
As God and I together take each one of these truths and break them down, going in deeper, until I can get them through my thick skull (my words, not His) and truly believe them about myself, I would like you to join us. After all, these are also truths about each one of you, not just me.
I hope you can learn something, too, and that these little musings will somehow bring glory to the One who inspires them. That goes along with another truth God has lately been reminding me of: we're not in this alone. He doesn't teach us so that we can keep our lessons to ourselves. In fact, He expects us to share them with others...something I have been neglecting of late. And so, He has told me, it is high time that I again include others in my thoughts, in my life, in my faith, and in my Journal Entries.
