As long as you live under the false idea that you are a liability to God, then no matter how things are going you will feel inadequate. You will feel that you come up short and are not all that God wants you to be. You will constantly be focused on trying to get your act together. Until you see that you are already all God wants you to be—that you are an asset to God, not a liability—then you are never established in the fact that living waters are flowing out through you. But when you finally make peace with who you are, you can begin to experience the realm of life that God has destined you for.
When we died on the cross, we permanently died to being a liability to God. From His point of view, we can no longer be a liability. Even if we're messing up we're not a liability, because He's going to use it somehow in our life or in somebody else's life, or both. Until we came to Christ we were nothing but a liability. And the better we were on the outside, the more of a liability we were, because we esteemed our own righteousness.
Foundation truth is to know you died with Christ and that you are no longer a liability. Having been raised with Christ, you can no longer be anything to God but an asset. He has accepted you. He is pleased with you. He uses you, live through you, speaks through you, loves through you.— The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, pages 111-112
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No wonder grace is so scary! It sounds too audacious to believe, but it's true.
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This is so great! Thanks for taking the time to type all that out. I'm really enjoying reading this. And yes, I will wait patiently to see pics of M.
Love, Renee
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