I am dearly loved
The battle for my mind is the battle for my life. So I must think true and God-sized thoughts. The most essential is “I am dearly loved”. I cannot change or diminish that awesome reality. God loves me unconditionally, extravagantly, and personally. When I believe and live this thought, it changes my feelings, my actions and the results. Its a battle of the mind and it is worth it.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:50 am
I am dearly loved. I am dearly loved. I am dearly loved.
This is truth that I am shooting to get gathered off the floor of my life and put into my cup of faith.
Last night I went running with a friend and we discussed this. I suggested he do a word by word (one word a day) meditation of 1 John 3:1. (You can get the info on this technique from some past message I gave back there in antiquity or from Lui Guiglio’s book “I am not, but I am”.)
I am dearly loved.
August 20th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
It has taken me a very…VERY long time to realize that I am loved by God. A relationship with Him is what I have been wanting and seeking…yet unsure if I was even worthy of having one.
I did something I never do and perhaps should do more often…I prayed. I told God the truth: that even though I thought I loved Him, I didn’t know if He loved me, and that I just wanted to find my way to him. After that I cracked open my Bible (something else I don’t do nearly enough–hey, no one ever accused me of being smart!) and paged through it, looking for something but unsure of what it was I thought I would find, I found Proverbs 8:17, which reads:
“I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.”
I know that God loves us, because he created us, and the idea seems so simple but to open my mind up and actually realize that truth has been amazing…it’s profound, powerful, enlightening,..indescribable.
August 20th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
K
It has taken me a long time as well. I wangt to believe HE loves me dearly, but my faith and confidence spills out of the cup.
Yet GOD is there and HE loves you…it is true.