all that can be done to redeem me
and rescue me and make me Yours.
There is nothing left for me to do--I
cannot earn Your favor or improve
upon Your provision. I can only
humbly and gratefully surrender to
Your love. Yet my heart yearns for
more. More of You, more evidence
of Your power and presence in my
life. I want to reflect Your glory and
live in such a way that when others
see me, they are seeing You. I am
afraid that there is nothing that
outwardly sets me apart from those
who are simply good, moral, honest
people. I know "I" am more than
that because it is You in me Who is
moral, honest, good, and anything
else that is right and decent. I know
it's You and not me, but how would
anyone else know?
your life is hidden with Me and in Me. I especially don't want you to be afraid
concerning what others may or may not think about you and how you are
perceived. I am the One Who knows your heart, am I not? I am the One you are
living your life before, am I not?
I know your passion to make a difference in the world, to not be "left out" of
what I am doing and how I am moving. You long to see Me work with power and
authority and to see the miraculous with your own eyes. You long that I would do
My works through you unhindered, and you long that you would be brave enough
to step out into those works in faith. Dear one, I know all these things. I know also
how weak and inadequate you feel and how far away these possibilities seem to
you.
I did not create you for mediocrity; I created you for excellence. My excellence
is to be evident in everything you do, every word you say, every encounter you
have. It does not matter whether the work is "spiritual" or "secular", for every part
of your life and everything that touches you is spiritual. Live your life with
excellence, love those around you with excellence, do your work with excellence,
pray with excellence, speak with excellence, sing with excellence, enjoy Me with
greatest excellence. I take great pleasure in you, and I want you to take great
pleasure in Me.
Will your life look very different from someone else's? Perhaps not, but it will
give off a different fragrance--the fragrance of Me and of life. Many will not be able
to identify it, and some will not like it, but some will be drawn by it--not to you but to
Me. Could you imagine anything more miraculous than to witness your own loved
ones and others that you know coming to new life in Me? You can be a part of
that and more. I have no intention of "leaving you out". I didn't, after all, save you
with no plan of multiplying that miracle beyond you. There are people and areas
that I created you to touch, and you are the one I have called to that task. They
may be few, they may be many, but your eyes are to be fixed on Me, and your
heart is to be praying always for them. I will hear and answer your
prayers--persevere in prayer as you love them.
Take My hand and come with Me--we have much to do yet and there are
things awaiting that you would not have dared to dream of. Let's go together in
excellence.
2 Corinthians 2:14-17; Isaiah 44:3-5; Ephesians 2:10; Luke 11:5-13
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