Monday, February 7, 2011

He is everything.

Honestly I have felt pretty worn down the last couple of days. I have always been very hard on myself, and expected a lot.I try to be perfect for God because in the past I've been very far from. I get stuck in the worlds view that I need to earn God's love, but I don't. That isn't how God works, and when I defeat myself because I feel I'm not enough I clearly do not understand who God is.
Psalm 103:3-18 " He forgives your sins-every one. He heals your diseases- every one. He redeems you from hell-saves your life! He crowns you with love and mercy- a paradise crown. He wraps you in goodness-beauty eternal. He renews your youth- you're always young in his presence.
GOD makes everything come out right; he puts victims back on their feet. He showed Moses how he went about his work, opened up his plans to all Israel. GOD is sheer mercy and grace; not easily angered, he's rich in love. He doesn't endlessly nag and scold, nor hold grudges forever. He doesn't treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs. As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him. And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins. As parents feel for their children, GOD feels for those who fear him. He knows us inside and out, keeps in mind that we're made of mud. Men and women don't live very long; like wildflowers they spring up and blossom, But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly, leaving nothing to show they were here. GOD's love, though, is ever and always, eternally present to all who fear him, making everything right for them and their children as they follow his Covenant ways and remember to do whatever he said."
I don't have to be enough for him, I don't have to fret over the past, present, or the future when things start to weigh me down.When we become weary because our journey has been to much he wants us to find rest and refreshment in him. He fits everything into a pattern for good, including the things we wish were different. He wants us to start from his day on, accepting that we are right where he wants us to be. We just have to remain attentive to him, let him guide us and remember who he is. He is love, he is forgiveness, and grace. He does not care who we where, who we are, but he does care who we are going to be.

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