There are some things about who I am that once you get to know me it’s really hard to still like me. I understand that. They’re true. And I have to live with myself! Yet one of the most staggering things about God is that despite my flaws, faults, and those offensive things about my personality – He somehow just can’t keep from loving me. Isn’t that amazing! And the truth is…He feels the same way about you!

God has promised us a righteousness that is not our own. One that is not created by our own self-will and determination, but by the joining of His very presence within us. Do you understand that? Then today, rather than striving to live some difficult code of conduct…seek to be intimate with Him. Seek the experience of His touchable and tangible presence within you by the giving of your complete heart to Him.

We are told after God forgives our sins, from that point on…He will remember them no more (Heb 10:16-17). No, God doesn’t have Divine amnesia. Don’t be silly. But what He does promise is that your past failures will never be brought up again. Nor will He ever use them to prove a point about you in the future. Sad isn’t it that we as humans are slow to learn this God trait. FORGIVE SOMEONE TODAY-REALLY FORGIVE THEM!

Pinocchio Puppet Christians?

When we first come to God, we come with strings attached for His approval. Don’t do this, don’t do that, but you must go here, and do this and that…lot’s of rules for God’s acceptance. Then someone tells us of the unconditional love of God and the strings are cut. But still-we’re wooden puppets. That’s because the “new creation” only happens when God becomes touchable and tangible…God in us, us in Him.