RELATIONSHIPS--one counts

The Lessons I Wish I Had Taught
It’s all about relationship, the relationships God wants me to experience with others and the relationship that is deep and personal and real that He and He alone offers me.

Yes, he knows my name and your name; he planned my family and your family. Absolutely everything that is in my life he desires to use as a blessing for me and others. That is also true for you.

He wants me to bring glory and honor and worship to Him! How Awesome is that? Totally. How believable is that? Absolutely— “The Bible Tells Me So.” Sometimes our life experiences blur truth, and we choose sometimes to have difficulty accepting that truth. How true is it? Totally.

I hear you; come of you are saying, “Do you think that makes you special?” And the answer has to be a resounding, air-splitting, up-lifted “YES!”

Because I know these truths, I can accept life’s circumstances as planned events with God’s fingerprints all over them. Each event and each person thus has godly moment and godly meaning.

Even the worst damage suffered at the hands of man can be redeemed—“what man intended for evil, God intended for good.”

However, pain, whether psychic or physical, can cause us to become self-absorbed, and we lose sight of God’s purposes. Again the words must come forth, “Father, forgive me, for I have sinned.” And he does, and he embraces me, and he comforts me.

He even understands me when I emotionally need to suck my thumb instead of running immediately to him.