So why am I writing this blog?
When I first encounter the “Who I am in Christ” list on this bookmark, I felt challenged. I was challenged by my friend Keith to read it out loud twice every day. But I felt more deeply challenged.
I read the “I am accepted” list twice a day. Then every day I had a devotion, I used the next item on the card as my focus for the day. I looked up the whole verse and began writing in my journal. The “I am” section of this blog is coming form those pages of my life.
What I am discovering is, I am a church going David yet I have arguments and pretenses in my life. Argument and pretenses have set themselves up against me truly knowing God. These arguments and pretenses have laid hold of my mind and heart. They keep me from knowing God. I have accepted some of these lies as truth. They argue against God and His truth in me.
“God doesn’t have anytime for me. He is not interested in the real me” is just one of the lies I have accepted and embraced. I believed God blessed others and would never bless me. At best it seemed like I was a pawn in God’s little chess match on earth.
I believed this lie because of my own discouragement, pain and loss.
Yet Jesus says:
I will never leave you or forsake you
Whenever two or three of you gather together in my name I am with you
The Father is sending you the comforter who will lead you and teach you in all wisdom
Jesus is interceding for me daily at God’s throne
Jesus called his disciples friends and I am his friend
God calls me His child and His adopted son
Jesus prays for me daily
He has forgiven and forgives me
He wants time with me
Yes, He wants time with me
Why does he want time with me
To renew my mind
To bless my life and expand it in every direction
To teach me how to walk in the spiritual blessing I have already been given
To teach me how to walk in the spirit with faith and wisdom
When I accepted the lies that said, “God didn’t car about me.” They fit my emotions. They seemed to fit the situation and I traded the real value of my allegiance for that “truth” which was a lie.
I gave away my mind and heart for a lie, for counterfeit truth.
To identify counterfeit money tellers count, recount and handle lots of real money. The counterfeit bills are first recognized by touch, feel, impression, marking pen because there is something a little bit wrong with them.
Shifting from the worlds thinking, into God’s kingdom thinking requires lots of truth handling to expose the lies. Jesus said I should first look at the log in my own eye before looking at others.
My direction is to keep handling more truth until I know it. Then keep handling it till it renews my mind. Then I will keep handling it, lifting up truth where it has been stolen.
There might be jobs in counterfeit detection but I am seeking life, peace and joy that are in the truth.
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