" 20 We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ Himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!"
This is probably a close second to the Being Healed day. For me, being sent by God gives me worth; it gives me a purpose. I love that Christ didn't just create us & loves us, but He gives us a purpose. I was talking with one of my friends a while back (during some hard stuff) about how much I love that we're so precious to God & have so much worth in Him, and she had said something to the extent of, "That's something I feel like a lot of people mistake, which is really dangerous, because really, we don't have any worth compared to Jesus. I mean, He's God, He doesn't need us. Christians keep saying, 'we're worth so much', but we're not actually worth that much, but God still chose to save us." Not exact words, but something to that extent. That kept bouncing around in my head for a long time, and I finally came to the conclusion that it isn't true. God doesn't create worthless things.
Psalm 139:13-16
" 13 You made all of the inner, delicate parts of my body and knit me together in my mothers womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - and how well I know it. 15 You watched me as I was formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark if the womb. 16 You saw me before I was born. Every day my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."
God fearfully and wonderfully made us. He made us with a purpose, He called us, He crafted us, everything for His glory. But our sin interferes with that, and makes us ineffective and keeps us from that intimacy with Christ. Because of what He did on the cross, He sees us as He sees His own Son; fully worthy, fully loved, fully acceptable. By no means do we deserve what He did for us, but He finds us worthy because of it.
2 Timothy 1:9
"It is God who saved us and chose us to live a holy life. He did this not because we deserved it, but because that was His plan before the world began - to show His love and kindness to us through Christ Jesus"
We were each created for a specific reason, each of us given a unique blend of gifts & abilities & personality to live out that/those reason(s). God can use us in unique and powerful ways. NEVER forget or nullify what God can do through you. It's by His power, not our own, and He can do powerful things that we could never imagine or hope to attain.
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