Just look forward to being around them, no expectations
I heard someone say the reason we should be going to be around people, is just simply looking forward to getting to be around them, without any expectations. Hopefully there will be some laughter, sometimes there will be some tears.
The only way I could not look for there to be a need meet from someone else is when I began to learn that God had already come to meet all of my needs. Here's just a couple of the miriad of verses even way back in the Old Testament that speak of God's kind intentions toward us: "For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, which says to you, "Do not fear, I will help you.". Isaiah 41:13 Then He was talking about Jesus in 42:1 when He said this "Behold, My servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights." When Jesus was here, He lived a perfect life, a sinless life. Then He died on cross, on purpose, and in our place. He exchanged His life for ours. That perfect life He lived, He exchanges it for our born in sin one that we inherited from Adam at beginning of all people. When we recieve salvation, that forgiveness He bought, by living perfect and being put to death anyway. He gives that to us; it's called forgiveness. Debt paid in full is then stamped on our life, but more than that even. And how He sees in Jesus in that verse, Isaiah 42:1, is how He see us now and forever; just as He sees Jesus.
God does not look at us through Jesus, when we are saved scripture says we are crucified with Jesus, Galatians 2:20. This is talking about that old, 'there is something wrong with me' life. After salvation that just isn't true anymore. Instead He's made a new creature out of us.
"Come unto Me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Come, take My yoke upon you, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Jesus didn't come to give us a new yoke of labor, it is a yoke of receiving His love. You are changed when you are saved, and you do not want to sin anymore; not the deep real you. Yes, we still have sin and He is always wooing you to let Him help you deal with your sin. We are never going to conquer it on our own. That's not the way we were designed, to live life 'on our own'. The sin isn't even between Him and us! His arm is around us, and we are looking at it together. But, we've heard scripture says He cannot look at sin, but then that same scripture says, "then why do You?" Because of the amazing, astounding, perfect work that Jesus did with His life, death and resurrection; He's made us clean for all times, Hebrews 10:14. And so now, the sin is not us, it's something that bothers us, Romans 7, and that does not taint us anymore. "There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Even being around people. I'm really aren't the 'worst case scenario' that I thought I was. I may do fo paus once in a while, others do to! And I love to tell them they are not alone, so can I recieve it too? I used to be so afraid of making mistakes in front of people. Oops, well, I guess I still am, it's taken me eight years to start this blog. But as I have ventured out amongst people way more in those last eight years, hearing these truths over and over, I have gotten to see that people actually like me, way more than I have liked myself, and that has been super helpful, encouraging and just so refreshing.
The only way I could not look for there to be a need meet from someone else is when I began to learn that God had already come to meet all of my needs. Here's just a couple of the miriad of verses even way back in the Old Testament that speak of God's kind intentions toward us: "For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, which says to you, "Do not fear, I will help you.". Isaiah 41:13 Then He was talking about Jesus in 42:1 when He said this "Behold, My servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights." When Jesus was here, He lived a perfect life, a sinless life. Then He died on cross, on purpose, and in our place. He exchanged His life for ours. That perfect life He lived, He exchanges it for our born in sin one that we inherited from Adam at beginning of all people. When we recieve salvation, that forgiveness He bought, by living perfect and being put to death anyway. He gives that to us; it's called forgiveness. Debt paid in full is then stamped on our life, but more than that even. And how He sees in Jesus in that verse, Isaiah 42:1, is how He see us now and forever; just as He sees Jesus.
God does not look at us through Jesus, when we are saved scripture says we are crucified with Jesus, Galatians 2:20. This is talking about that old, 'there is something wrong with me' life. After salvation that just isn't true anymore. Instead He's made a new creature out of us.
"Come unto Me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Come, take My yoke upon you, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Jesus didn't come to give us a new yoke of labor, it is a yoke of receiving His love. You are changed when you are saved, and you do not want to sin anymore; not the deep real you. Yes, we still have sin and He is always wooing you to let Him help you deal with your sin. We are never going to conquer it on our own. That's not the way we were designed, to live life 'on our own'. The sin isn't even between Him and us! His arm is around us, and we are looking at it together. But, we've heard scripture says He cannot look at sin, but then that same scripture says, "then why do You?" Because of the amazing, astounding, perfect work that Jesus did with His life, death and resurrection; He's made us clean for all times, Hebrews 10:14. And so now, the sin is not us, it's something that bothers us, Romans 7, and that does not taint us anymore. "There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Even being around people. I'm really aren't the 'worst case scenario' that I thought I was. I may do fo paus once in a while, others do to! And I love to tell them they are not alone, so can I recieve it too? I used to be so afraid of making mistakes in front of people. Oops, well, I guess I still am, it's taken me eight years to start this blog. But as I have ventured out amongst people way more in those last eight years, hearing these truths over and over, I have gotten to see that people actually like me, way more than I have liked myself, and that has been super helpful, encouraging and just so refreshing.
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