{"id":16332,"date":"2018-09-05T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:06","slug":"its-your-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/its-your-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Your Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the eyes of God each one of us is precious and dear to Him.\u00a0 He looks at us with pure love and passion.\u00a0 Through the lens of Jesus, He sees us as perfect and pure and delights in our successes in life.\u00a0 He is with us in all of our trouble and painful failures, even the ones we<\/em> caused.\u00a0 If we could see ourselves as He sees us, we would never be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as I can remember, I loved God.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how or why since I wasn\u2019t raised in a Christian home.\u00a0 I just did.\u00a0 At the age of 17 the Holy Spirit visited me, and I met Jesus for the first time.\u00a0 I will never forget the love I felt that night as I knelt before the alter with tears of remorse (for my sin) and joy (for His salvation) streaming down my face.\u00a0 I felt love that night like I\u2019ve never felt love before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t long after that that the spirit of religion came over me and I began to \u201cserve\u201d God out of the sense of duty in order to please Him.\u00a0 Over time I never felt good enough and strived more and more to please God.\u00a0 The problem was that I never saw myself as God did.\u00a0 Yes, I read the Bible over and over, but religion blinded my eyes to His view of me.\u00a0 I never understood that He loved me just as I was.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to try to be someone else.\u00a0 He wanted me to be my authentic self so He could transform me into the unique beauty I was destined to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After decades of \u201cserving God,\u201d I finally began to see what I was doing and how that all my doing<\/em> limited God from His doing<\/em>.\u00a0 All I had to do was: come.\u00a0 \u201cCome to me\u201d was His cry.\u00a0 \u201cCome as you are, for I love you that way.\u00a0 Let me embrace you and infuse you with the fragrance of My beauty.\u201d\u00a0 All God wants from me, all He ever wanted from me, was an intimate relationship in order to release His glory and virtue into my life so I could express Him in my unique and special way.\u00a0 A way that I could only express Him.\u00a0 He wants the same for all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spirit is calling!\u00a0 He is calling out to all who will listen: \u201cCome!\u201d\u00a0 He is saying, \u201cCome as you are.\u00a0 Come with all your uniqueness and LET me engulf you with my glory and virtue so that you and I can express My Son in a unique and wonderful way.\u201d\u00a0 God does not want you to improve.\u00a0 He wants to infuse you with Himself.\u00a0 He wants to permeate our thoughts and watch us express ourselves as His new and glorious creation for all to see.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Apostle Paul said, \u201cI am who I am, by the grace of God.\u201d\u00a0 Paul got it!\u00a0 He was unique and special.\u00a0 There was no one like Paul and there never will be, and that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 There is no one like you and there never will be.\u00a0 God\u2019s grace, His power to change, is enough to transform us into a unique image that expresses Him in a most special way.\u00a0 All we have to do is COME and LET.\u00a0 What does \u201clet\u201d mean?\u00a0 It means to give permission.\u00a0 God has given us a wonder gift, the gift of choice.\u00a0 We can choose to let God come, or we can choose to ignore Him.\u00a0 It\u2019s entirely up to each of us to let Him come and form a loving union with us for the most unique expression in the universe.\u00a0 Think about it, He and You are the most unique expression of Him EVER!\u00a0 Each one of us are.\u00a0 That is awesome isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop the performance.\u00a0 Stop trying to be something you are not.\u00a0 Stop trying to be like someone else you admire.\u00a0 Be your authentic self and let the Spirit come and do his transforming work in you so that all can see a unique aspect of God though you.\u00a0 To do anything else is to cheat the Lord of His glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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