Skip to main content

Pricelss! Proverbs 31 Blog Hop Day







I know myself.  I know my failures.  I know my weaknesses.  I know my regrets.  I know all the ways I fail on a daily basis.  How is it that God is not upset with me?  He knows all of my junk!  He knows everything…we can’t hide anything from Him.  But Jesus….He evaluates my worth.  He evaluates your worth.  He stands up and declares our life - are you ready for this - He declares our life….PRICELESS!



“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.”  ~Ephesians 2:10




We are His masterpiece!  We are PRICELESS!  

Jesus is bigger than any of my mistakes.  He is bigger than any of my regrets.  

January 1st 2013…I decided that my one word for this year would be FORWARD!  No looking back.  Keep going forward and keep my past mistakes in the past.  Keep my eyes forward and on Jesus. 
  




“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God.  People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.”  Psalm 36:7

Why am I so hard on myself?  The voice of the Accuser can be louder than the grace that God so freely gives. If I let it!  It’s not God that “reminds” me of my failures.  It’s not God that helps me remember my junk!  God is love.  He is kind.  He is merciful. 



Jesus knows how we feel.  

“He must increase, but I must decrease.”  John 3:30

The only way I am going to grow is if I expose myself to the light.  Jesus is that light.  To grow more like Him and to bloom….I need to keep my eyes on Him daily.  



I struggle with accepting His grace and mercy because I feel so unworthy of it.  But He chases after us with it.  “God’s not out to get you- He’s out to give to you.” Ann Voskamp.

We need to know who we really are!  We are defined by God…not by our past.  “I can’t imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are.”  Emily Freeman


His love never fails.  We can’t buy His love…all we have to do is open up our hands and take it.  Priceless!



“We will never be secure until we realize we are fully loved by God, no matter our failings.”  Beth Moore


It is our choice to find God in our successes and in our failures.  “His goodness and mercy pursue me all the days of my life.”

He pursues!  He chases!  Jesus says to stay awake!  “And what I say to you I say to all:  stay awake.”  Mk 13:37

Stay awake to His priceless love!  He’s everywhere!
 

My pastor once said, “Don’t limit God by your small thinking!”  Even though I don’t feel worthy of His grace, His mercy, His unfailing love…Jesus died on the cross for me and for you.  That means we are worthy.  It means we are PRICELESS!  We are His if we choose to accept it.  We have an Eternal Home that He wants us to have.  All we have to do is fall forward, give thanks, and find our way home to Him.  

 
 
 
“God put a longing for unfailing love in our hearts because He knew it would lead us back to Him.”  ~Renee Swope
 

Comments

  1. Beautiful pictures! Beautiful reminders to turn our eyes toward God to receive His unfailing love! Blessings to you today!
    Mary

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Mary...and thanks for stopping by!! =)

      Delete
  2. I love your statement "If I let it!" I get overwhelmed with the feeling that it's just not possible for God to love me...look at me, i'm a MESS!!! I dwell on the negative. Like you pointed out tho...God doesn't bring those thoughts on and doesn't want me to have them...He has overpowered them with His unfailing love. THAT is where my thoughts should dwell.
    Thanks for the reminder :) Sarah.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It's so easy for us to dwell on the negative. Eyes on Jesus with you Sarah. Thank you for stopping by! =)

      Delete
  3. Beautiful photos and Beautiful words! <3 blessings! Love the Yoga pose!

    ReplyDelete
  4. LOVE your forward for 2013!!! Beautiful pictures as well!!! God bless :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Michelle, Thank you for these encouraging words! And I LOVE your pics...I think my fav is of the inside of your car and the rear view mirror :) I love when you said, "All we have to do is fall forward, give thanks, and find our way home to Him." Yes, eyes on Him, no looking back! Love & Blessings~Shelly (OBS Blog Hop Leader)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Shelly! YOU have been inspiring me for some time now. =) Eyes on Jesus with you!! Blessings!! =)

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Worry? Proverbs 31 OBS Blog Hop

  This week's blog topic from Proverbs 31 OBS is on “Worry”… AND I know a thing or two about worry.  I’m betting a lot of you reading this do as well.  Dictionary.com defines worry as: “ to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret. ” Torment oneself.  Suffer.  Fret.  That’s what I can do to myself sometimes.   I’ve heard that if you worry you don’t really trust that God can handle it.  You don’t trust God with it.  That’s hard to swallow for me.  Because I worry about my kids, my family, me, friends, etc.  But I’m in the Bible every single day.  I am a Jesus girl.  So for me to worry and then see that my worry means I don’t trust that God can handle it is hard.  UGH.   I am getting better about it though.  My time with God every morning is helping.  When I start to worry about something…I begin to pray.  I stop the tormenting in its tracks and give it to Jesus.  Now, I may have to give it to Jesus more than once. 

Running on Empty --- Proverbs 31 OBS Blog Hop Day

It’s the middle of summer and I feel like I am running on empty.  Ever feel that way?  The pace of summer is supposed to relax me but these past couple of days…I feel tired and done.  Right now- I don’t believe my life is telling the story of God’s grace.  Oh, I know His grace is all around me…He gives me grace D A I L Y.  But…am I giving grace to others?  No…not really because I am empty…drained…exhausted.  In fact, I told my kids that it would be an early bedtime last night because Mommy was done...that Mommy was on empty…that I had nothing more to give and we needed to just go to bed. <Insert Mommy guilt> I need to be filled up.  I want to be filled but I keep going through the motions of my day to day activities.  Depending on my own strength is draining me and causing me to say, “I have nothing more to give!”  When really…I do.  The other day, my daughter had a trail ride and as I stood in a big open field and looked out at God’s creati

Changed and Transformed ------ Proverbs 31 OBS Blog Hop

It’s the day after Easter.   The kids are beginning to stir and wake.   I can hear them coughing and sneezing- allergies.   A new season is being born…beautiful blooms of flowers and trees busting open causes my peeps to be miserable.   The day after Easter - the Resurrection - a new hope…a new life…a new being born…all because of God’s Son.   All because of Jesus .    Anxiety and fear are my natural default.   As a kid I had so much anxiety in me before school days.   When I was in elementary school I was so afraid of a math tutor that I would have to go see…that one day I just hid in the stairwell thinking that I would stay there until it was time to go back to class.   I even heard my name being called over the speaker but never left the stairwell.    Jesus knows my name.      I’ve grown up but other things try to steal my peace. I was broken and starving for real food. Starving for The Bread of Life . I began to open up God’s Word and really