{searching} for ME

{my heart--convicted recently... sharing}

Have you ever heard the expression "I just need to find myself"? 

Maybe you have been there, searching for who you are. leaving family and just looking. searching God's creation for YOU.

Or maybe you have not physically left your life in this pursuit. but emotionally there are days when you are "checked out" and unavailable. [I am pointing any  fingers at myself!]

People searching. hunting. rummaging. pursuing. for SELF. {Who am I?}

a quest of self-discovery.

Our world is filled with these people. We have a pre-occupation with SELF.

And God says we are FOOLS.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, 

but that his heart may discover itself. 

Proverbs 18:2

Being a Wife is a full-time responsibility. being a Mommy is hard work. You know this. We don't have time to "find ourselves." [and if we tried, that would make us fools!] We do not have time to be "checked out."

 BUT

We don't have to. 

If Jesus has you, then you ARE found. {JOY}

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. Luke 15:6

 we are   {FOUND}

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. John 10:27-30

we are  {OWNED}

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Proverbs 8:17

we are  {LOVED}

 

I must REST in HIM. in WHO He is. in what He has done for me. in what He can do through me.

...and be contented in knowing that where I am is not where I will always be.

I pray you have a BLESSED weekend!

When I first began this blog, I had a sequence of posts started about who and what I am in Christ. I will be {prayerfully} be continuing them for the next few months and posting them on Fridays. Because HE is... I can be!

forgiven

I am forgiven. Salvation is deliverance from the eternal consequences of sin and is accomplished through forgiveness by Christ' blood.

Forgiveness is a continual thing. God no longer sees me and the blackness of my heart (and it is black). He sees the Work of Christ. Jesus is my substitute. Not only did He take my sin upon His very being on the cross, He gave His righteousness, His innocence to me.

 

God sees His perfection when I come to His throne and cast my cares. This is forgiveness. This is why He even hears my prayers. 

Yes, I can hinder my own conversation with God through unconfessed sin, even after salvation {this happens only once and is complete, there is no need to ask again}. But I must repent of sin daily and specifically in order to maintain that fellowship in which He sees only Jesus' cleanliness of heart. 

for today: Am I living in my forgiveness? Have I remembered that the righteous blanket of His Blood is covering my soul right now? Does it show?

...in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace... Ephesians 1:7

a new creation

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This is what I am.

Not because of anything I have done. 
Quite contrary.

It is only because of what Christ has done for me, in me- sometimes even as I resist. So sad. Why do I do that?

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new crature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  

II Corinthians 5:17

As Christians, we are new creatures.

But the old man is still there, lurking.

I must remember each day that who I am should be determined by who I know (Jesus) and not what I feel (fleshly desires). And whatever I model each day is what my children will learn that day, and what my husband will remember about the day as he lays his head down to sleep. And don't forget the people we meet each week who may know nothing of Christianity, save what they see in our life.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.  Galatians 6:15

There is nothing I can do of myself that will manifest this new creation. Only through God's strength can my life show this newness. Going to church, having a facade of pleasantness, being helpful... are nothing.

nothing, without His light shining through.

My prayer for this day... is that I (we) would remember that I AM A NEW CREATION. And I should not resemble what once was. Teach me, O Lord, the way of they statues; and I shall keep it unto the end. Psalm 119:33