Psalms 139 says "I am wonderfully and fearfully made"
Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
II Corinthians 5:17 says "I am a new creation, the old is gone the new has come"
There are many days that I wake up and I forget these scriptures and all the ones like them, I forget the scriptures that say if God is for me who can be against me, or to not be afraid for He is my God, he is my strength my shield.
I spend a lot of my life living in others shadows, I'm afraid I'm not good enough. I often feel unworthy, unnecessary and unwanted. The truth is its taken becoming an elementary school teacher to discover that I am loved, I am wanted, I am necessary. Not because the principal or the students say so but because God says so, and He needs me to believe that message so that I can pass it on to the students I care about. I need to know my value and my worth found only in Him so that I can then pass it on to those who may just need to know that message more than I do.
I was working today on a project for a special person in my life and it was through working on it that I realized that these exact same words I was saying to her I needed to be saying right back to me.
Today I celebrated the resurrection of a KING of my MESSIAH, the one that I have hope and faith will one day return for me, in that celebration something connected with me. I realized that my God is beautiful, He is creative, He is peace, He is strength, He is kind, He shows grace and mercy and since He created me in His likeness then through Him I am all of those things as well. He didn't die on the cross because of anything I did but it's especially because of what I did that made Him die to save me. It was the only way to spend eternity with Him. The whole point to my life is to one day spend eternity with Him. In order to get there I have to first serve Him right where I am. So I'm not waiting on anymore tomorrow's to get started.
