As If You Were the Only One

As middle schoolers, we can start to learn what it means to turn our value over to someone else. We begin to buy into what others think about us, we start to care about it and we become vigilant about what constitutes as "normal". It's heartbreaking to think that what made us feel SPECIAL and FEARLESS in elementary school can get stripped away IF WE ALLOW IT. Even worse, we carry the voices of catty girls, silly boys and careless adults well into adulthood. You can forget you're not 12 anymore. 

When I came to faith, it was only then that the weight of youthful chains started to become lighter, then loosen and began to fall away. Saying YES allowed me to start building a bridge of trust to God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit in a way I hadn't previously encountered in my life. Trust and peace had been the casualties of my earlier years.

After I said YES to Jesus and everthing that meant, the most powerful statement was spoken over me: "Jesus died on the cross for all of us but even if you were the only one, Jesus still would have chosen to die for you."

That's true for you too.

Jesus as God on earth could think of all who were and all who ever would be. He SO loved us He would CHOOSE to suffer and die. We were all SAVED and given ETERNITY through His love! And the truth is, I didn't even know I was dying until I took that first ragged breath of LIFE.

With that kind of love available to us it reduces the roars of regret and doubt, to silence.  No longer fearing rejection allows me to be more creative, love deeper.  I can be a leader because I know who I'm following.  I am fearless about who I am because I KNOW it is exactly what I was created to be.  All this, because God loves us as if we were the only one.