Do you know that Jesus is happy with you? I can hear the excuses rolling through your thoughts as you read that…Ya but, He would be happier with me if I could get my act together. He would be happier with me if I could stop getting angry at my kids, or if I didn’t struggle with that particular sin. But I’m here to tell you, that’s not what Jesus is thinking. He is happy with you because you are His.
I was feeling like such a failure the other day. Shame was really trying to grab a hold of me. I felt helpless and hopeless in loving the people around me. I felt overwhelmed and frustrated with my circumstances. I started to write in my journal and it turned into a prayer that I thought I would share with you.
Thank You, Jesus, that You are happy with me and that I can fall flat on my face and You will still be happy with me.
Help me to free myself from the expectations I place myself under.
Help me to accept myself and to love myself because You love me, because I am your child. Beautiful and cherished. Just right. Lovely.
Exactly where I should be. Right on time and free.
Amen
It’s true for me, and it’s true for you. Jesus loves you, even when you fail. Even when you don’t live up to your own expectations.
I’ll leave you with a verse from Romans. The translation is from the Message.
“With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.”
Romans 8:1-2 (MSG)
I pray that today you will free yourself from the black cloud of shame that is trying to convince you that you need to change in order for God to be happy with you. May you rest in the knowledge of His love for you.
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39 (NASB)
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