God does not want your goodness or your perfection or your ability to follow in His requests. He wants your inability. He wants your failure. See for so long I didn't understand this. I tried and tried to be perfect to live up to the standard of God all the while failing. Because I can't ever live up to it. If we think we must we are failures. We will never be enough. Ever. We will always fail. And this my friends is the thing God mostly wants us to be grateful for... To see our inability and to stop striving so hard because we won't get there and to let the shield of
righteousness, HIS righteousness be the thing that makes us perfect. When we take refuge and believe that we can never do it and ask Jesus to be the one to do it for us to pay the price for the sins we cannot ever erase God no longer sees us but he looks at us and sees Jesus. His son. Whom he loves and takes great delight in. Perfect one. Holy. Whole. Precious. And he laughs and encourages and holds our hands through life and trains us as he would train a son and a daughter and he speaks the most healing words to us... Honey to our ears. He becomes everything we need on this earth and becomes the fullness of a dad where our fathers and mothers may have failed us. God gave me this picture once of me in a war zone of life and when the bullets of life started at me he didn't put me down and tell me to fight he held me closer to his chest and held tighter. This is my papa. He is the one who looks at my name and applauds and laughs in joy in delight. He stands at our doorway and watches us as children playing with: delight. He understands our sadness our weakness our pain and more than anything he wants to have us in his fullness in heaven with him. He is the father that does not want any of his little ones to perish. His love is steadfast:dutifully unwavering. No matter what. His love endures for ever. He wants no sacrifice. What he wants is for us to be his children, needy for him and his papa love. I just felt like I was supposed to write this morning. Hope your new year is spectacular.