Hearing from God Each Morning (July 24)

This blog is about today’s devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.

Today Meyer talks about how we can’t be more righteous than God makes us. We need to stop trying to do things on our own accord and learn to accept the righteousness that God gives us. Over time, our deeds will be better, but not because we are doing something, but because God is doing something in our hearts and through us. We need to learn to love ourselves because God created us in His own hand.

That’s something I used to struggle with more than anything. I used to hate myself for all of the mistakes I made… and even some things that were out of my control. Only recently have I begun to learn to love myself. I’ve learned to just put what I’ve done behind me and to see myself as pure (the “white rose”), which is how God sees me.

Sometimes, though, I forget. I’m human. I lay in bed and I’m half asleep and I’ll think about the past couple of years and start to feel that poison set in and Satan whisper in my ear that I’m not good enough. I’m often reminded of the mistakes I’ve made, and they are many. But when that starts to happen, I take myself back into God’s Word, which tells me who I am in Christ. It’s not what I have done, but what He did on the cross.

O praise Him!