Skip to main content

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

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...
Post a Comment
Read more