"Give up everything you feel you have to do for me and dow hat brings you pleasure.
I want to show you that it is not yoru actions that bring me pleasure...but you."
Today, on this first day of Lent, I am pondering this idea that the God of the universe wants me to know He enjoys me. I am pondering the idea that what God really wants is for me to enjoy His joy and pleasure in me.
Ludicrous, isn't it, that the God of the universe wants nothing more from me than to enjoy how much He loves me?
Prayer for today:
Lord, show me anything I do because I feel it earms me favor.
Show me anything I do because some warped theology says You expect me to do some miserable thing because somehow mental or emotional flogging makes me more godly and more pleasing to You.
Show me anything I do that comes from the idea that my being in mental, emotional, or physical pain somehow gives You pleasure.
Reveal my false or twisted ideas of what You are that drive these false ideas of who You expect me to be.
Um, I think I am just going to go around letting God know that I ditto what you said. Because I do!
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