Day 59 "Do You Consider Yourself Fully Accepted By God?"

Some of our perceptions totally govern the way we live our lives. What we perceive our relationship with God to be is vital and crucial to whether we live a life trying to please God through our performance or whether we see ourselves already fully accepted by God through the atoning sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ. On the one hand, seeing a deficiency in our relationship with God will continue to harbor anxiety and unrest as uncertainty persists as to whether we have done enough to make the grade. On the other hand, having faith that we are already fully accepted by God through his love and unmerited grace casts aside all uncertainty and anxiety as to our relationship with him for what we did not implement, we cannot lose or screw up. May I invite you to look back to day 6, February 6, 2020, entitled "Are You Holy?" If you have been made holy through Christ, then rest assure that the rest of your life is no longer measured by your performance. You have been set free to live your life to a new directive: to love!

"The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God." Hebrews 7:18-19

"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water."

Hebrews 10:19-22

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:16

"But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself." Hebrews 9:26

"He set aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." Hebrews 10:9-10

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." Hebrews 10:24

"Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you." Romans 15:7

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." John 13:34

When you finally come to the realization that your performance, how you have lived your life, wasn't the factor in impressing a holy and righteous God, but that it was only through Jesus' sacrificial act that made you righteous before God, and only then, will your life be free to fully understand and embrace God's love for you and be unshackled from any fear or anxiety that you might experience whenever you visualize yourself standing before God when you pass on from this life. In Christ, you are fully acceptable to God! Therefore, live the rest of your life here on earth knowing that you are fully loved and accepted and that you have been fully reprieved from any accusations or condemnation by God. This is a statement worthy of repeating on a daily basis:

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those in Christ." Romans 8:1

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His love has set you free from self.

In his love... see you tomorrow... "Carpe Momentum in Love"