The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17
Dear Sarah: You are God’s creation – embraced, loved, valued, cherished, delighted over. Nothing will ever change this fact. No amount of obedience will change it. No amount of disobedience will change it. This is grace. This is love. The reality is that when we embrace life in Christ, we actually are made new again, made whole again, made holy. The old has gone. The new has come.
Have you noticed that when Paul writes to the churches in the New Testament, he never opens his letters to them by calling them “sinners.” Instead, he calls them saints.
The challenge for us is to be what we already are: holy, loved, made whole, and free. These are not things God merely sees us as…they are things we actually are. You are loved. You are valued. You are cherished.
Love, Mom
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