You are accepted

"This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - and I am the worst of them."    1 Timothy 1:15    CSB 

We have times when we feel so unworthy of God's love and acceptance. Why would He care to give us a chance in life? What have we ever done to deserve such love? We could never earn it; many people in the world, go to great levels of service  in an attempt to gain the attention and acceptance of another. We could never do this with God, we could never buy our way into His attention and acceptance and, thank goodness, we will never have to, thanks to Jesus who took our place on the cross at Calvary, declaring us, 'Not guilty'.

Paul felt like this occasionally and wrote in 1 Timothy 1:12-14, 'I give thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord who has strengthened me because He considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry - 13 even though I was formally a blasphemer, a persecutor and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance, in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus'.

If you are in Christ Jesus, you are accepted and loved and will inherit a place in Heaven when you die. You are not a misfit - a square peg in a round hole, type of thing. You fit into Jesus - perfectly. In the world, you may have to try very hard to be accepted into something. People may make you feel unwanted and unloved, don't let them, you are a child of God.

At school, college or Uni, you may have failed miserably, but in Jesus, you are top of the class. You may have been told that you will never amount to anything. This is a lie from the devil, Jesus says you are a light of the world in Him John 5:14. Someone may have said that you will not achieve anything. However, scripture tells us, 'I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.'  Philippians 4:13.

You are accepted by the King of kings - Jesus Christ your friend  John 15:15

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