Never forget that you have worth and value not because of what you look like or even because of what you do with your life (because that will constantly change), but because you are God’s daughter, His precious one.
God sees you as perfection by the covering of His son. Not as a waist size, not as a number on the scale. And He gifts us with His power, the power that raised Christ from the dead! He enables us to win every battle (spiritual, mental, physical) over our bodies.
Instead of fighting against the lies that Satan and the world would have us believe, we fall into them and eventually those lies become our distorted truths and negative self-talk.
I’ve been entangled in jealousy… which stems from prideful comparison… which exists in me because complete satisfaction and identity in my Abba Father, doesn’t. And I’m imprisoned.
The world asks me, “What are you waiting for?” Implying that I am the one that needs to make things happen, and get things the way I like them. Do what I want, when I want, and get results, fast. But my God asks me, “No Amy, WHO are you waiting on?”
If you look at my other words, they all have elements for something to do, but this year, this word, it about who I am.
We don’t deserve the forgiveness and grace we have from our Savior, and your offender probably doesn’t deserve your forgiveness either. But, can I encourage you to just give it anyway?
Sometimes our own situations make us question our God. Some days that negative self-talk sets in. We almost lose our hope, our sense of the goodness of God, or our will to ever engage in our world again.
The greatest danger lies in this: in great pride I want to believe that God has created me for the purpose of saving the world, as if Jesus failed to “finish the job.”
