What I Believe (About You)

Here's what I believe about you, and me, and every other human being.

You were created by a loving, Heavenly Father, who made you in His image. He created you to share and enjoy life with Him, to receive love and give it to Him and others, and to be a reflection of how good He is. You and every other human being who has walked the earth, besides Jesus Christ himself, was born not knowing God. It was your nature not to trust Him and to fend for yourself, to pursue life your way. 

It didn't help that your parents, no matter how good they were, did not perfectly love you as your Heavenly Father loves you. They didn't perfectly reflect His grace, His patience, or His compassion. They didn't perfectly communicate how valuable you are or the delight that your Father has for you. And they failed to communicate who you are and what you were created to be. As a matter of fact they often sent a message that originated with the father of lies himself. And it hurt. I would say most of your life and your sin has been a response to what you came to believe about yourself and about God, a response to the messages you received or didn't receive from your parents or the people that you believed... should know.

Your sin separated you from God and from the joy of being in His presence without shame. But Jesus did a work for you and the rest of us. He became sin for you, taking your sin onto Himself, and He paid the debt you and every other human being owed to God.

You either were or still are in need of being reconciled to your Father. Jesus has made a way to reconnect your spirit with the Spirit of the Creator of the Universe. You just have to want it, to ask the Holy Spirit to do it, and to trust that what Jesus did on the cross was enough to make you blameless before God.

Jesus loves to restore. To be restored is to be put back together, to be made new again, to look the way you were created to look and to be who you were created to be.

All things were created by Him and through Him, so He knows who you were meant to be. You were created to have the same relationship with God that Jesus himself has always enjoyed. You were meant to enjoy a life of purpose, your greatest joy to bring your Father glory. You were meant to know His peace, trusting Father to meet every one of your needs. You were meant to know and live in and give away...love. Jesus will restore anyone, because He loves and believes in...everyone.

It's not over. I mean, once you're reconcile or saved. It's not over.

Even the reconciled, the redeemed, the saved need work. Jesus gives a new heart and new Spirit. He makes us into a whole new creation! But the mind, the mind, the mind. What will we do with our minds? You mind must be renewed. It has to be retrained. Our minds remember too much, and forget even more. Without being renewed, our minds think according to what we have always known, what we have always believed about ourselves. Abandoned. Rejected. Not good enough. Unlovable. 

But Jesus changes everything, and offers a new reality. Never forsaken. Accepted. Complete. Lovable. Not to mention...holy. When we enter into the new covenant in Christ, we are just as set apart as He is. And we are able.

The mission of Jesus Christ was to die, to, in effect, plant himself as a seed, so that more little Christ's might spring up and grow into the fullness of...Christ. He promised a gift and He delivered. The Holy Spirit. The Guide. The Counselor. The Comforter. The Power! The power to do what? Even greater things than Jesus did while He walked the earth. As a group. As His body on the earth. It's the will of our loving Father that you are released from every lie that keeps you from having life and having it abundantly, and released to fully express CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of Glory!

What do YOU believe...about you?