Rooted in His Big Idea
Doesn’t shame impede our growth and prevent us from receiving God’s grace and compassion that He freely offers? We treat ourselves so harshly and wonder why we can’t experience God’s love. We have knowledge of it and intellectually agree that His love is unparalleled when it comes to His sacrificial action on behalf of humanity. But personally, acceptance of it as a reality in our own lives is often foreign.
The key that will unlock the riches of His loving kindness is to choose to become rooted in it. May we treat ourselves as our Savior does. May we forgive with great compassion, believe we were created for a purpose and with significance, and speak tenderly to our wounded self.
He’s waiting for us to grasp hold of His BIG idea---He loves us with a passion we cannot fully understand and yet, He’s willing to daily relate to us so that we may marinate in Him, allowing Him to seep into our pores. As the aroma permeates and extends to the air around us, we allow the proclamation that we are His to take root! We commit to replace the negative, destroying self-talk with the truth of what our Heavenly Father says about us.
Our Abba is often more generous towards us than we are to ourselves. Recently, I was overwhelmed with the need to be productive and active for Him. And if I was honest, it was also to matter to those around me. My dear Abba whispered that I was to celebrate my rootedness in Him alone---no striving, no working myself into a frenzy, instead He invited me by saying, “Let’s Sabbath together”. And as I took that breath of release, there was peace, joy, and freedom that flooded my soul.
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the riches of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.
Psalm 63:3-8
(Excerpt taken from Daily Dose of Intention: 365 Days of Purpose by Shagae Jones)