What's Wrong with Me?

Speaking about being different...and I did in my last blog...I heard a young man speak that, obviously, had been radically changed by the Lord.   He preached an awesome message, and I wanted to share some of his message with you.  I am not going to attempt to organize his thoughts in any manner, but want to share them with you at random...which is how he shared them with us.

What's Wrong with Me?

Some of us are crippled by ME, and the fruit of ME is temporal and disgusting!   If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed!  If something is wrong with you, it's not His fault!  Where the presence of the Lord is, there is change.

Don't worship your circumstances...worship Him!  Celebrate what's been done for you, and not to you!  Don't be a victim and hold your circumstances or what's happened to you up like a trophy!  Don't stay in your circumstance, but stand in your covenant relationship with God.

You say, "I don't feel righteous,"  ...and you never will...but believe Him!  You are righteous in Christ Jesus!  We have become partakers of His divine nature.  "Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away, behold, all things have been made new."  (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Our biggest problem is that we don't know what to hope in...we don't know what He has promised us in God's Word.  Is His mercy done?  No...it endures forever...His mercies are new every morning!  Lay down your options and celebrate the promises of God.  He cannot lie...His Word is truth!  You can bank on what He says.

God's promises are not based on me and my performance but on His merit!  Jesus wants us to come to Him now...just like we are...don't try to clean yourself up or straighten yourself out.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith.  It is a gift of God...not of works...lest any man should boast!"
(Ephesians 2:8-9)