Have you
thanked Him?
Have you praised Him?
Have you made it your priority to agree and
cooperate with Him today?
Have you taken that deep breath and listened for
what He has for you today?
1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)
The first thing I want you to do is pray.
Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.
When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test
of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when you fail. Do
you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back
into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence?
If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand
the gospel. - Matt Chandler
This High Priest of ours understands our
weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive
his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. - Hebrews
4:15-16 (NLT)
Yet that is tough when we blow it right?
Maybe you had a mom or a dad that when you “blew
it” the last place you wanted to be was anywhere NEAR them.
You knew there was likely a consequence coming.
Ever get in trouble in school and have to “wait” til
one of them got home? Oh, the dread! At least for me.
I will be honest.
Those moments are LODGED deep inside my hippocampus. And so are those
fears. And the more learn about TRAUMA
and our responses, the more I can understand WHY this truth shared by the writer
of HEBREWS would be hard to fathom.
We blow it and we are to come BOLDLY for help?
Doesn’t make sense. At least not to me.
Lord knows I blow it a lot.
Crazy thoughts.
Quick frustrations.
Less than stellar actions.
But Chandler and our writer ASSURE us that in our failures,
that in our weak moments we DON’T lose access to our FATHER and we don’t
relinquish our sonship or daughter-ship. We don't stray out of grace's net.
Quite the opposite.
It is in those moments that GOD does His best work
for us.
my power finds its full expression
through your weakness.
1 Corinthians 12:9 (TPT)
That doesn’t give us license to KEEP blowing it. (Read Romans 6)
Yet it does switch the narrative for when we do.
Instead of slinking away from ABBA we should RUN
to Him.
There we will find OPEN arms, grace, opportunity,
and mercy.
There we can regain our
footing.
There we can quell the relentless brow-beating of
the enemy shaming us to keep slinking.
There we can regain our confidence in WHO we are
and WHOSE we are.
…God’s chosen treasure…He claims you as
his very own.
From 1 Peter 2:9 (TPT)
Often it is our mistakes that confirm WHO WE AREN’T as GRACE reminds us
WHO we ARE. - Delaney
If this OFH looks a little familiar, it should. It was originally penned in June of last year. But given the my recent days, I needed to revisit it. Love all of you!
Have a blessed day today!
OPPORTUNITIES
for HOPE
