Accepting God's Assessment - pgs 63-71
Realize
1. Describe a times in your life when you felt on top of the world. Next, describe a time when you felt completely worthless. What common factors do you find in both experiences? (For example, were your feelings dependent on others' to you, on how you looked, on how you performed?)
2. Read Psalm 139:1-18. What do you learn from the psalm about God's heart and thoughts toward you?
Reflect
3. Is there someone who affirmation you crave? Someone whose approval matters more to you than God's?
4. How has that longing for human acceptance affected your thoughts? Your emotions? Your behavior? Your relationships with others?
5. Read Romans 5:6-11. What makes it possible for us, as fallen sinners and enemies of God, to be accepted by God?
6. What effect do you think a renewed vision of your position in Christ might have on your interactions with family and friends?
Respond
7. How can you begin to renew your mind, to understand and trust God's love for you and His acceptance of you through Christ?
Prayer of the Day
Lord, thank You for loving me so much. Thank You for choosing me and saving me. Thank You that through Christ I have been made acceptable to You and that I am Your treasured possession. Help me to think of myself as Your beloved daughter and to rejoice in the privilege of my relationship with You. Amen.
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The lie that I need to learn to love myself is a very easy lie to fall into. It's all around us. Yet it struck me that it is a lie with enough Truth to sound plausible but Satan is using this lie to take the Christian's focus and put it on self and not on God. We need to remember that this world is not about us- it's about our focus on God and our service for God.
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