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Nervous to know what God thinks about you?

Published over 2 years ago • 2 min read

Reader, have you ever been nervous to know what God thinks about you?

I have.

I worried that God didn't care for me the way I hoped He did. That He was disappointed with me, or discouraged by my blunderings. Or worse, I worried He only tolerated me because He wanted to use me to reach those He truly cared about—the "more beloved" like you.

it wasn't true. But still, it was a story that persisted in various ways over decades until...

  • Until I started to experience God's character for myself.
  • Until I learned how to trade in lesser stories for greater ones.
  • Until I started seeing myself the way God sees me.
  • Until I begun to live from my true identity.

The late Timothy Keller has a great quote about this, "We cannot know God without knowing ourselves, and we cannot know ourselves without knowing God. The two kinds of knowledge are inter-dependent—they rise or fall together."

Reader, what if what God thinks about you, knows about you, is better than you could ever imagine? I promise, it is.

Empowering your walk,

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