Thankful for Perfect Love

I have had a very busy last few weeks.  Where to start, Hmmm… Well, I have been working at my full-time job (of course) and this past weekend I worked at my prn job.  I enjoy both of them, but right now we are trying to pay off student loans from my master’s degree.  So I am working a lot of hours to make some extra money.  I am not complaining, I was led to Union University for a reason so I know God will provide the funds.  I am just thankful for my two jobs that God has given me.  So that explains why I haven’t posted much since I started this blog.  Now let us get down to business. 

Me and Michael

I made this blog for several reasons.  First I made this blog for God; it allows me to open up to what God wants me to be.  I have always been a very private person, but have recently been shown that God has other plans for me and my family.  I was perfectly content in my little environment all by myself, but I am taking the plunge for God.  I have to admit, I am a little afraid of this journey because I am someone who strives for perfection.  If you get honest with yourself I am sure you have tried to be perfect sometime in your life as well.  I am slowly learning it’s not about being perfect but about being perfectly loved.  “Jesus loves me this I know.”  No matter what I do He still loves me.  I am never rejected by Him.  I have turned my back on Jesus, but He has never left my side.  It is amazing to know just how much He loves me.  I know that I will never be perfect on this side of heaven, but I will strive to be perfect in His eyes.  We are to love people, but we’re only asked to please God. 

“For do I now persuade men, or God?  Or do I seek to please men?  For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10) 

We are called to care about others, to be kind and considerate, to try our best to bless them.  But guess what, we don’t have to make everyone happy.  And if we don’t have to make everyone happy, then we don’t have to be perfect.  God has already declared us good enough, worthy in his sight, valuable, and with much to offer the world.  

As long as I show love toward others and follow God’s will as best that I can and someone else talks negatively about me or rejects me, then they are responsible to God for that sin.  If I am doing my best to be loving, God says, then others are to come to me and tell me if I’ve offended them.  (This works both ways-others are not responsible for pleasing me either.)  And I am to guard my lips from gossip about them as well.  We are here to please God, not each other.

So I am NOT going to be afraid to put myself out there because I feel less than perfect.  I am going to be a servant of Christ.  I plan to please the One who has already declared me a delight to His heart!  I am very thankful for His Perfect Love!!  

                                                      Michael's camera practice

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1)