FAULTLESS

Would you believe it if I told you that you have no faults?

Now don't be too quick to send the little men in white coats to put me in a straight-jacket and carry me to the safety of a secure institution with barred windows and locked doors and then throw the key away! Just calm down and read your Bible as proof of my wild, but true statement!

Ephesians 1:4, to be exact, confirms what I said about you. I like the Living Bible Paraphrase although the King James Version says the same thing. "Long ago, even before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own, through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault -- we who stand before him covered with his love." King James says, "without blame." Same difference!

In God's eyes you're holy. Ever think of yourself as being holy? God says you are, in His eyes, anyhow. And in His eyes you're without a single fault, not even one teensy, weensy, itty, bitty fault!

You may think you have faults and bemoan your weaknesses, but remember what Paul said? "When I am weak, then am I strong." Others may look at you and decide you are one big bundle of faults. But I ask you this. Which is more important -- what others think of you, or what God thinks of you? What matters most -- what you think of yourself, or what God thinks of you?

That revelation ought to put a spring in your feet and a praise on your lips and send you dancing all through the rest of your life!

Be encouraged -- In God's eyes you have no faults! I didn't say it -- God did!!!

Preacher's Kid
P.S. And don't forget -- as an added blessing, you're covered with His love, snuggled in the warm, cozy blanket of His love!