Lie: The Father God is always expecting more from me. He is disappointed in me. I may seem good to the world around me, but He knows how I am and I am not enough.
If I heard someone else say this I would be appalled. Mostly. I would want to correct them and encourage them, but no scripture would be able to come to mind. I would feel like it was wrong, sense it, but I wouldn't have been able to put my finger on why. Why couldn't we disappoint God? Why wouldn't we? I've heard it all, but I didn't know how people could say that God isn't disappointed or upset with me. He's not expecting more. I'm not letting Him down. It didn't make sense to me. At all.
So here I was, having a great day before this moment and then in this tender moment I felt like I would never find an answer that would satisfy and abolish this "supposed" lie. I didn't want it to be true, but I couldn't see how it couldn't be. I looked up some verses and most of them were out of context and I couldn't really find anywhere that God said He was proud of me. And then pops up Colossians 2:10.
"And in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;"
In Him you have been made complete. In Him I have been made complete.
What does this have to do with disappointing God? That was my first thought, but I couldn't leave the verse right away. I read it again and then it hit me. Complete... means without lacking. I'm complete in Christ... I am not lacking because of Christ. The question no longer is "how could I not disappoint God?" It is now, "If I'm complete, not lacking, how I COULD disappoint? What in completeness is disappointing?
Wow. Thanks Jesus.
Wow. Thanks Jesus.
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