What Matters Is Who He Says I Am

Jim May, whom I have a great deal of respect for, just shared a bunch of quotes in his newsletter. This one I've found it to be true. “The way to conquer rejection is to come to the God of all comfort.”

What does that mean? By coming to the God of all comfort, we exchange someone's judgment about us for Someone Else's. Not only that, but we exchange an imperfect, fallible, limited, faulty, impudent, ignorant, self-satisfied, egregious, arrogant, wretched, wicked, immoral, hateful, stupid, insufficient, imploding, bombastic, furious, putrid, evil, little, shrewish, horrid, demeaning, boring, insolent, witless judgment for a new judgment that's perfect, infallible, unlimited, faultless, prudent, knowledgeable, self-sufficient, exceptional, confident, content, good, moral, loving, wise, sufficient, structured, succinct, peaceful, pure, holy, King-sized, good-tempered, beautiful, valuable, creative, polite and witty. And don't think I didn't drag out the wiktionary on that one!

What does that Someone say about me? If I go by what the Bible says, He says a lot! I am His child, His very own, bought with a price. More than that, "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Christ lives in me! I don't have to accept what they say about me because I have died! I don't answer to them, because Christ takes my place. In Christ, I am already righteous, already holy.

He also says that I am the temple of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. I have comfort no human can give me. His Spirit speaks to my spirit and bears witness to the truth. His Spirit shows me life as it can be. Reading Romans 8 in the Message paraphrase gets me all excited!

Who you are as He sees you is vastly better than the highest flattery and praise that anyone else could ever say. The love He has for you is better than a thousand romances. He pursues your heart as a suitor, no matter your race, no matter your gender. He seeks your heart. He wants it with all He has, with all He is. What will you say to Him? Will you give Him your heart? Will you give Him all of it?