Thursday... But do we accept each other as we are?

Thursday... But do we accept each other as we are? Do we?

God has created each one of us to be unique? We each have different personalities. And some we accept and some we don't but God accepts and understands each one of us.

Now David was a unique personality. He was. And it comes out in his Psalms that he has written.

Look at Psalm 13:3 (NLT). It says, "Turn and answer me, O Lord, my God! Restore the sparkle to my eyes or I will die." Now that type of personality could bother some people.

In verse 1 he writes, "O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?" Now some would say that that is a little over the top but that was David. That was how he felt. And God accepted him, he understood him and he created him.

Yes, we can be hard on people who are not like us.

So many parents have a child who is their favorite. They could be like them and that other child is different. They react to situations in a different way than they do but God accepts and loves each one of us. He loves and accepts our uniqueness and David knows that.

Look at verses 5-6. David writes, "But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me." And that is the truth. We can trust his unfailing love and that he has been, will be and is so good to us.

I may embarrass my family, my friends and those who don't really know me. My personality may be out there for some but not for God. I may be the wrong color, the wrong sex, a little too religious, a little too positive and a little too short and not quite as fit as they like. But God created me and he really, really does love me. Yes he loves and accepts you too with an unfailing love and he really is good to you.

Your father, your mother, your brothers or sisters may have some problem with you just like David's brothers had with him but God said he was a man after his own heart.

Yes, he wrote a bunch of Psalms and he was a musician but he also killed a bear and a lion and a giant.

God loves each one of us. He may have problems with our unbelief but he loves us to the point that he sent his son to die for us. Yes, we can know that he loves us and that he can be trusted. And he wants to restore the sparkle in your eye. He really does. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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