you are beloved...

Juli 31, 2018

you are beloved...

July 31, 2018
You Are Beloved
BOBBY SCHULLER

from: CrossCards, Encouragement for today

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" 1 John 3:1a (NIV)

You are not what you do.
You are not what you have.
You are not what people say about you.
You are God's beloved daughter.
This is your only true identity.

Though we are many things — parents, ministry leaders, entrepreneurs, sinners and saints, God only sees us as one thing: His beloved.

We might believe we are the beloved of God consciously; maybe we hear it all the time. But many of us struggle to truly believe it unconsciously. Deep down there's a self-talk we don't always see driving many of our decisions and emotions; there are voices telling us we're not enough, we need to be more, do more and be better. "Only then" will we be worthy of belonging.

I remember the first time I realized these unconscious voices were swirling around in my heart.

I was telling my wife a story how as a kid I did something clumsy. Consciously, the story was funny to me. It made a family relative freak out and call me a name. I'm laughing as I'm telling her the story and I say, "He got so mad he called me a …" Then something bizarre happened. My face, throat and chest locked up. I couldn't even get the mean word out and started weeping.

I'm not one to cry often, but this night I cried like crazy, all the way home, and I could barely drive. Though painful, the experience was also cathartic and enlightening.

I realized something amazing. I'd been carrying those words in my heart for so long and had never noticed them. Deep down inside there was this kid, me, who wondered if in the end he was just the worthless name he'd been called.

We all do this. It might have been said by someone we love or someone we hated. Maybe it wasn't blatantly said but expressed through an unloving action. We might say we are God's beloved, but there's often a deeper, self-rejecting voice. It's this harmful voice we need to bring to the surface, think about, feel and give to the Lord. We can do that through training and replacing that voice with what Henri Nouwen called "the voice of the beloved."

I once heard him give a speech about how we are not what we do, what we have or what people say about us. We who follow Jesus are God's beloved daughters and sons. I decided I needed to believe this, deep down. I needed to train this into my heart. So I wrote it as a creed to practice. I said it slowly, as a meditation, every time I would pray. Over time as I spoke this creed over my life, I watched how more than any other discipline, it powerfully transformed my life into Christ-likeness. I'd like to share it with you:

"I'm not what I do.
I'm not what I have.
I'm not what people say about me.
I am the beloved of God.
It's who I am.
No one can take it from me.
I don't have to worry.
I don't have to hurry.
I can trust my friend Jesus and share His love with the world."

Friend, you are so loved. You do enough. You are enough. God's Word reminds us to "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1a)

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Victor Christianto

Founder of The Second Coming Institute, www.sci4God.com

Founder of www.DigiMBA.com, Preparing Leaders for 21st Century

Founder of www.acaraindo.com, Promoting cultural and music events in Jakarta and other cities

Founder of www.ketindo.com, A renewable energy consultant

My books and papers can be found at:

- http://researchgate.net/profile/Victor_Christianto

- http://independent.academia.edu/VChristianto

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http://www.esnips.com/web/RepentanceGuide.

Print this guide, copy as many as you can, and distribute this to as many countries as you can, including Asian countries such as China, Burma, Thailand, Campuchea, Laos, Srilanka, and Vietnam. Pray and ask to God first before you select a language for your country. That is the message: be hurry be very very very very very hurry to repent and receive Jesus Christ, all corners of the world.
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