Dear friend,
I wanted to write and inspire
you today! I wanted to encourage you- and
remind you who you are! To me you are the world….but to this world you are
nothing. That is because this world is
full of deception and decay and wants to blind you to your worth! I want to implore you to shift your
perception lest you become bound to worldly standards and its lies! Mentally and spiritually climb up beyond the
obstacles that are hindering your view…. so that you breathe better and take
life in from a different perspective! In
doing so you may be better able to see the plans God has for you! Sometimes His plans get hidden in the
distraction of our busyness or bound by other’s opinions. We must free ourselves of this by choosing to
eliminate those distractions and then begin again-seeking God’s best for our
lives.
First and foremost-you must know
that you are beautiful! Not as this
world deems it. But, in the heavenly
way! You are beautiful in worldly standards, yes, …but that is not the
measure you and I should ever use! We’ve
been there. Done that! That category of beauty will fool you….and
will deceive you into seeing your worth in ways that distort! It will have us building our very lives on
temporary things like jobs, and bosses who don’t care about our worth or our
health, on outward appearances that fade.
Then what? Ignore this earthly call
to establish your life on outward appearances and temporary posts- including
where you work, how well you do that job, how much you earn, or even what you
drive! This pressure is meant to
eliminate time for God and deem Him unimportant! This world has bought into this Grand
Scheme…and people’s lives and hearts are scattered and shattered because of
it!
Next-remember that you are
loved. Loved imperfectly but loved! When we’re hanging in a crowd of unbelievers
we don’t feel or even see love! We
sometimes confuse the truth that we don’t receive the love or respect we need for the fact that we aren’t loved! This is not accurate! We humans do not know how to love each other
in ways that “fulfill”. We are sinful
and selfish and our love gets distorted because of that! Love isn’t given perfectly and with that it
isn’t received well. It’s a cycle that includes us in both the “giving” and the
“receiving”. Make allowances for
sin. Make a way for fallible, human love
to seep in and soothe you as best it can.
This life is truly not based on human love but
an eternal love that only God can offer. God has set eternity into the hearts of men
and because of that we can’t seem to find enough time or enough ways for the limited-love-of-humans
to fill that gap! We know of
eternity….but we’re bound by the earthly…so love is so distorted, unfulfilling,
almost heart-breaking. What we must do
is realize that even love is tarnished by the curse of sin. With that realization we must view love in a
different way and begin “receiving it” and “giving it” in a different way…with mercy and compassion and with allowances for its flaws! We must choose to love the unlovable and allow
them to love us. We must do this deeply
- with great mercy- for “love covers a multitude of sin”. 1 Peter 4:8
Remember that you are a Child
of the Most High God and that your worth is based on an eternal mechanism that
is beyond the material world! Your
character and value system are linked to another realm! As such-your worth is not an earthly
attribute and if you’re seeking it here in this life-you will be disappointed-
for it is not here to find! We bump into discouragement and un-fulfillment
enough to know this is true!
It is in our godly esteem and eternal heritage that we will find our worth! We must remember that our earthly life is really a spiritual journey and it is through the spiritual quest of seeking God’s kingdom that we will find any reflection of meaning pertaining to this temporary life!
It is in our godly esteem and eternal heritage that we will find our worth! We must remember that our earthly life is really a spiritual journey and it is through the spiritual quest of seeking God’s kingdom that we will find any reflection of meaning pertaining to this temporary life!
Heavenly advice confirms this for scripture says:
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness
then all these things shall be added unto you”!
With mercy reaching to save!
Beautiful, Beautiful
by Fransesca Battistelli
by Fransesca Battistelli
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