A very dear sister-in-faith of mine, Donna, shared this song by Sarah Kroger at our monthly gathering last Friday. It is so powerful and true. I needed to hear it, perhaps you do too.
As Christian women (maybe as men too?), it seems we too often tend to focus on what’s not right with us. Our failures, fears, shortcomings, mistakes, what people say or think about us and more.
But that’s not what we should focus on at all! Instead, let’s choose to focus on Jesus and his love — on what God says about us– on what God believes about us– on how much we are loved. He wants us to know!
My challenge to all of us is to find or make time this week to listen to “Belovedness” and to read the lyrics, until they soak into your heart and soul. And each morning when you wake up, choose to say, “I am His beloved” and then thank Him.
Below are some scriptures about God’s great love:
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. John 3:16-17
Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light. [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins. Colossians 1:12-14
Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God. And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection]. We love Him, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:15, 18 & 19
Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible (AMPC), Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. http://www.lockman.org.
A Grateful Grace-full Life 