What are you believing?
Last year, toward the end, I posted about my word for this year:
Believe
God would like me to:
- Believe the truth about who I am in Him.
- Believe He will provide.
- Believe He will fulfill His promises.
Believe the truth about who we are in Him. I think we ALL deal with this. We are bombarded with social media images where filters and people posting only the very best, make us think we don’t measure up.
Yet, who we are on the outside isn’t who we are. Every day we are reminded these bodies will not last forever. We get older – ugh, I feel it, do you? – and we age. We were not created to live in these bodies forever. We will be given new bodies when we get heaven. Thank you, Jesus!
So, why do we spend so much time trying to fix the outside instead of the inside? In believing we are not enough on the outside, and forgetting who we are in God?
Here’s the truth. According to Ephesians 1:3-14 (paraphrased below NKJV), if we know Jesus as Savior, we are:
“Blessed, chosen, holy and without blame before Him in love, adopted, accepted, redeemed, forgiven, receiving an inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”
I will continue to break this down more as we continue into the new year because for me to believe, I have to believe all of God‘s truth and not part of it. Which means believing in who I am in Him, trusting He will provide, and He is faithful to fulfill His promises.
Who do you believe you are today? Are you believing the truth of who you are in Jesus?
Father God,
Help me remember because of Jesus I am a new creation. The old has gone and the new has come. I am forgiven, for the past, present, and future sins. Help me not take this for granted, but remember the great gift You gave of Jesus so this can be. Help me remember who I am becoming in You, and in My heart is what matters. Also, that I am cherished, loved, adopted and so much more because of Jesus. Only that with eternal significance will last. May this be how You are glorified in my life. May I become more and more like You, and believe the truth of who I am in You and not the world’s standards of who I am.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
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