God looks at your Heart

I have for a long time looked to others for my approval for what I do. Let me put it in another way, the Lord wants me to use the talents that I have, because I am the only one created to display this facet of His creativity and his glory. Would you act like someone else if you knew that God created you uniquely, from his heart, before creation, knit together in your mothers womb, created perfectly, flawless, with all the "imperfections" of life and circumstance. I cannot even call them imperfections. If I get myself rooted in the identity that God has given to me, who cares what anyone else thinks, my Father says that I am beautiful.

That is right, the identity that God has given to me. What I fail to mention is possibly the greatest love ever known to man. He himself came down and wrestled humanity from the number one pandemic - sin - which gave us minds that never looked outside of our boxes.  The issue is not with being a fallen creation, it is that we have not grasped God's glory. He himself did the very thing that we couldn't. And now if I believe (simply) we have been restored, to everything that is God's intention. The cure is a bleeding lamb - a man, perfect offering for sin, I can no longer look at him without bleeding. Why is this? because when He exposed Himself, was crushed, beaten, bruised, slain, the world looking on with contempt and cruelty, He chose it, and this puts my value in God's eyes through the roof - not that I changed his mind about it, or did I?

My hope in speaking like this is, my heart is crying out for a Father's approval, who tells me who I am, that actually reminds me of the great love of Jesus, and inspires me in my heart to love Him. If I told you that He is looking at your heart, would that mean everything? Wasn't it God's intention that through the cross, Jesus Christ would become everything? So then cry out for whole-heartedness, and abandon yourself and you'll receive it. Join the applause of Heaven which says "The Lamb has overcome!" and be part of a movement that shakes the world

Putting your house in order

This season, which started on August 29, and ends on the 7th of October, is part of the Jewish Calendar, called "The Season of Teshuvah" a fourty day period which culminates in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Succat. It is a house preparation season, putting things in order for God - coming into a time of repentance, turning from sins, to the true God. Here are a few scriptures mentioning Houses in the Bible.

Joshua 24:15 "And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

Matthew 12:44,45 "Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds [it] empty, swept, and put in order." (continues on)

Haggai 1:9 "[You] looked for much, but indeed [it came to] little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts. "Because of My house that [is in] ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.