I don't really believe this...but I am working on it

"I am an awesome spirit being of magnificent worth as a person

I am deeply loved of God
I am fully pleasing to God
I am totally accepted by God
I am absolutely complete in Christ;

And when my person is expressed through my performance, the reflection is dynamically unique...there never has been another like me in the history of mankind, nor will there ever be, I am an original, one of a kind. Really somebody, and so are you. "

Becky and Schaun gave this card out to the team the last night they were here. I battle daily with insecure thoughts and who I am in Christ. Who I am in ministry. Who I am as a wife and daughter, sister, friend. Really...all relationships I am in. So I just keep reading this and wonder if it is real and hope that someday it will burn inside of me as "true".

Comments

[Brianna McNeil]

I love that card. But is it on his refrigerator or mirror? :) Oh man I miss our team already.

[Lynn Carey]

Kristi, Gosh I love how God works. I am having a struggle with a girl here and that is just what I needed to share with her at the perfect time. GOD IS AMAZING! Love you.

Lynn

[mandy]

you insecure? really? ..... ..... really!?

[Angie]

It is very real, and I pray that its truth will burn in your heart someday soon. I think you are incredible! Imagine me giving you a big vas full of flowers...i know, its not as good as in real life...but the distance thing is sorta hindering me giving you so many gifts. :)

[tawny]

That quote reminded me of another quote I read, which you may know, by Nelson Mandela.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darknes, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God."

I am none of those things, actually (not on earth anyway :) and it is kinda the other side of the coin, but it was thought provoking for me.

Thank you for your honesty, it is beautiful.

[tam]

The ONLY reason anyone of us can claim to be any of those things is because God sees us through His son first. Jesus Christ, the ultimate flesh filter. Before God sees me, he sees His son first...otherwise, the cross was pointless.

[jamie]

I never had trouble with the first one: God loves me deeply. It's the last three that I struggled with and just recently fully understood and accepted. I was actually planning to write a big post about this at my blog soon...