FALLING SHORT OF MY IMAGE
My dear battered child, how often you whip yourself with condemnation and self battered thoughts! I simply do NOT condemn you like this. This condemnation places a wall of separation between us, and keeps you from receiving My love. Yes, I understand you have fallen short. Yes, I understand you have failed to measure up to My image. But I understand even deeper than you, that much of your failings are due to wounds you can not heal.
When what you see does not measure up in your attitudes and your behavior, all I ask is that You not hide from the truth, but offer it up to Me in confession. Ask for My forgiveness and My touch to make you whole. My love covers a multitude of failings, dear one. I AM infinitely more patient than you are, and I see the end from the beginning. When I see you, I see your level of maturity and the fallen places that need healing and I understand. I send exactly what you need to raise up My full stature into your life, through one simple step at a time.
Pour out your heart to Me with confession and yielding, for I will listen to every word. I wrap My arms around you, precious one, and just ask you to rest. Come now and rest, rest, rest. Rest in My arms of love.
Heb 4:15-16 NKJV
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Eph 4:1-3 NLT
… lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Always keep yourselves united in the Holy Spirit, and bind yourselves together with peace.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
