Lyrics of a song

Tonight on my way home from counseling I was listening to a Christian song that had the lyrics "we are more than the sum of our mistakes" and I thought WOW.  We need to be preaching this off the tops of buildings.  We need to share the amazing and wonderful way God forgives us.  How amazing and how much love he had for us that He sent his ONLY son (can you imagine, mothers?) to die on a cross for our sins.

I am NOT the sum of my mistakes.  I have been forgiven, as far as the east is from the west, it says in the Bible.  I love that verse and cling to it.  When my past and the thoughts from my past and people are running their "tapes" through my brain, I just remember, I've given it all to God, asked forgiveness for my part in it all and I'M FORGIVEN.  Not kinda, not sorta.  Completely and totally.

Let that rock your world tonight.  There is NOTHING anyone can do that will ever again change the way I see myself because for perhaps the first time in my life I see myself as God sees me.  I am okay being me.  I like me.

Lately a thing or two has gotten my focus off of the truth in my heart and in the Word.  I am loved by God, blessed to be His and am beautiful inside and out.  There is not one thing any one person can do to me to change that fact.  For the first time in my life I'm okay being me.  It took a bit of a total overhaul of my heart to get to this place and a lot of prayer and input from people.

So tonight if you're not feeling so great about who you are, if you are a Christian, CELEBRATE because you are one of God's chosen, you're beautiful.  Just the way you are.  Not 5 lbs from now.  Not if this or that happens.  Right now.  You are exactly who God wants you to be at this very moment in your life.  That doesn't mean that He won't ask for change if something needs it but tonight just rest in Him.

Friendships, relationships are just blips on the screen.  Honestly it's going to take a lot more than a person to make me doubt who I am in Christ.  It's going to take a lot more than being treated unfairly.  No longer does my past have power over me.  I've let it go. Not going to hang onto it anymore.  God has given me new dreams in place of my shattered dreams.  (for those of you who haven't read it, go buy the Larry Crabb book "Shattered Dreams").  

I know my place, my purpose and my calling.  I am at peace.  Glory to God for that.