God STILL Wants You
God knows your mistakes. He also knows the things that have hurt you deeply that you’ve never told anyone about. He knows that your falls have caused you quite a bit of grief, loss, and damage. God sees the scars that mirrors don’t reveal.
But can I tell you something? Seriously, can I tell you something? Bring your eyes into focus and listen really intently.
God wants you anyway!
God loves you anyway!
God desires you anyway!
God believes in you anyway!
God wants to fellowship with you anyway!
God wants to bless you anyway!
God wants to heal you anyway!
God wants to restore you anyway!
God wants to use you to bless others anyway!
He is madly in love with you and you must settle in your heart that no matter what you have faced in your life, God IS good. The circumstances of your past, no matter how torturous — rape, incest, molestation, physical abuse, neglect, abandonment, death, divorce, abortion, tragedy, murder, and (fill in the blank)— do not change God’s nature. He is still good. Whether we understand Him, agree with Him, or accept what He allows or not, we must resolve that God is good even when the conditions we find ourselves in are not.
When we accept this truth— the truth that God is good— we CAN get up! Deciding that God is good puts us in a position to trust the operation of His sovereign will without questioning His character. We can trust God’s promise that: “I (God) know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jer 29:11 KJV)
Not only is God good with a plan of peace in place for you; but everything that He allows to occur in your life will work for your good! And that my friends, is good news! My absolute favorite Scripture in the Bible is Romans 8:28 which says: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
You CAN get up because God causes all things— everything included and nothing excluded— to work together for your good. Yes, even that thing. Even the events that have frustrated your faith time and time again work for you. In the moment they are terribly inconvenient, frustrating and excruciatingly painful. “But after ye have suffered a while, may the God of all grace, who hath called us into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.” (I Peter 5:10)
Excerpt from Dr. B’s new book!!!
