Find A WAY, No Matter How Small or “Insignificant”… to LOVE

3/20/2024

Below are some “spin-off” thoughts from the recent recordings. Some things I am needing to say to myself, and thankful that I have the opportunity to...

Let the weak say I am strong
Be STRONG in HIS mighty power

I am Strong... not because I feeeeel strong but only because Jesus is Strong.

Despite my weaknesses, my perceived inabilities, instabilities, and insecurities, yada yada, I AM STRONG. Jesus said so.

No excuse that I create to excuse or justify can stand against His word. There must be a way. By FAITH, by the FACT that it’s not me, but Jesus’ Blood covering me and His Life in me...

Therefore...

I can and will find a way to love.

I can overflow with constant thankfulness to Jesus and to my Family. I can and will find a way to love.

I am Enabled to care—serving and giving more than I receive, even if it’s just a kind word or a thank you from the overflow of deep recognition of my need of the Body. I must believe that. I can and will find a way to love.

I am motivated to dig in with the children and be an interactive helper and guide. I can and will find a way to love.

I can choose to be desperate to See Your Body through Jesus’ glasses as precious, and treasure each person, lifting them to you and wrestling to plus-one them with your love in prayer and action. I can and will find a way to love.

I can listen to the voice of conviction; not the voice of condemnation. I can be simple and moment-by-moment find a way to trust and love.

I do not belong to myself. I am a part of Jesus’ Body. Many being One. Sewn in purposely by his grace. He doesn’t make mistakes. In view of his mercy, I offer myself as a living sacrifice. I can and will find a way to love.

And I will never be so weak that I can’t Love.

Find A WAY, no matter how small or “insignificant”… to LOVE.

“View yourself through His glasses. Don’t think about yourself according to what you can or can’t do. Think of yourself in accordance with the measure of FAITH God has given you. God has given each one of us faith, and THAT is how God wants you to view yourself, by what He has done in you, by what He has given you, and by who He is. He wants you to look at yourself through HIS eyes, at what He’s done and by what He’s deposited inside of you. The emphasis is on God, not on you. He doesn’t want you to look at yourself based on who you are. Don’t think of yourself more highly than you ought. Don’t be wrapped up in what you can or can’t do. But rather, view yourself with sobriety, with sober judgment, with a “weightiness” of what God has done inside of you. View yourself THAT way... with sober judgment according to the faith God has given you.” (From Viewing Self/Body Properly)

In a day, there are so many possible things to “think about” ... and the temptation will always be to think about yourself, and all things—through YOUR eyes.

Be committed to thinking about everything, every decision, every thought or impression or opinion every “habit”... Through Jesus’ eyes.

That will stop you in your tracks and shut off the radio and motor of stupid. :)

•  Put on Your Jesus-Glasses!