True Origins

"My true origin is in the One who sent me..." 

~John 7:29

This statement struck a chord with me as I read through chapter 7 this morning.  A big part of my journey over the last couple of years has been focused on better understanding who I am in Christ...not just the fact that He loves me, but digging deeper in understanding how He sees me and what the depth of His love looks like.

“We are God’s chief creation, and we are here for His pleasure and His glory.  God did not create us so that He could have a front-row seat at an ongoing saga of our follies and failures.  He created us because He delights in us…not because He needed us, but because He wanted us (Revelation 4:11).  God measures His riches by His children.  We are His wealth, the apple of His eye, created to be His treasure.”

~Beth Moore~

We were created in His image and for His pleasure.  He loved us before we knew Him and there is nothing we can ever do to love Him more than He loves us.  As daughters of the King, He does NOT keep a running tally of our faults and mistakes nor does He beat us over the head with them or come after us with a spirit of shame and/or condemnation.  Rather, He is the perfect picture of patience, grace, and unconditional love.  God is FOR us.  He genuinely wants the best for us and wants to give us a life of freedom through Him…we just have to embrace it.

“By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.” 

~Romans 5:1-2~

It is in Him and Him alone that we find our true identity and origin.  I know that I have spent a number of years embracing and believing personal truths that were simply lies that Satan has used to keep me in bondage.  But, as I continue to better understand who I really am in Christ and the more lies I am able to uncover and replace with His Truth, the bigger the steps I am taking towards freedom and that is an amazing part of the journey.

This is one of my favorite passages in the Bible and especially from The Message:

“So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.  We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.  None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.”  

~Romans 8:31-39~