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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by letting God love us.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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In Romans chapter 8 verse 1 it says,

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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Bouncing down to verse 34,

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It is God who justifies.

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Who is to condemn?

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Christ Jesus is the one who died.

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More than that, who was raised.

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Who is at the right hand of God.

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Who indeed is interceding for us.

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As it is written,

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For your sake we are being killed all day long.

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We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

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No, in all these things.

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We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present,

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nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation

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will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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I love Romans 8.

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If you have been a part of this community for any length of time you know that I love Romans 8.

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In Christ there is no condemnation and no separation.

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It's where Romans 8 starts and where Romans 8 ends.

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There is no condemnation and there is no separation.

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Do not let anyone or anything convince you otherwise.

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The accusation of condemnation and the lie of separation

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try to attach themselves to our head and our hearts probably a thousand times a day.

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And they have many of us right now spinning on the wheel of works,

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trying so hard to matter, working so hard to be lovable,

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striving so hard to figure out God so we can crack his code and be better already.

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But Jesus didn't come to live in our efforts.

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He came to live in us.

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Now at the risk of sounding totally ridiculous,

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I want to share a very personal example of this because I think it might help some of you.

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A few weekends ago, I was supposed to speak virtually, you know,

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through a screen at a conference that was being hosted in Malaysia.

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And I was so excited and very honored to be a part of this conference.

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I worked really hard.

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I prepared the message.

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I spoke with the conference organizers.

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They were awesome.

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But the morning I was scheduled to speak, I woke up very sick and I just could not rally.

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I could not get out of bed.

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I couldn't make it happen.

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So I had to cancel.

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I had to cancel very last minute.

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And the event organizers, they were very gracious about it.

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But I was so disappointed.

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I was pretty embarrassed that I had to cancel, especially so last minute.

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And I was just utterly discouraged by the whole thing.

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And as I'm laying there in bed, I sense the Holy Spirit nudging me with this question.

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Lindsay, why does it matter to you so much?

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Why does it matter to you so much?

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And, you know, as I laid there trying to answer that question,

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I just couldn't stop thinking about how I had let everyone down,

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all the preparation I felt that had been wasted in that moment.

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You know, I even thought I should have been more prepared.

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I should have recorded my teaching ahead of time and sent that off to the conference

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organizers just in case something like this happened.

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I should have seen this coming.

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And I was just heaping one condemnation after one condemnation over myself.

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And again, the Holy Spirit asked, Lindsay, why does it matter to you so much?

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And I thought, because I thought it mattered to you.

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I feel like I've let you down, Lord.

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I feel like you've given me this opportunity and I just blew it.

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You know, even though getting sick wasn't in my control.

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It wasn't something I could control.

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I could have prayed harder, I could have had more faith, and I'd just been healed and

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been able to rally and been able to just go for it, and I couldn't make it happen.

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And God interrupted that tidal wave of shame and condemnation, and He said,

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Lindsay, just let me love you.

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Just let me love you.

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And I realized that this one moment represented so many other moments in my life.

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I've spent so much of my life trying so hard to love God, often by trying to love other

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people, to show up for other people, and to serve and minister and sacrifice and bless

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others because I love God, and I want Him to know that I love Him, and I want others

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to know that I love Him, and I want to make Him proud.

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And it's not wrong.

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Love people.

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Love God.

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It's not wrong.

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It's just not the gospel.

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The gospel is God loves you.

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No condemnation, no separation.

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It's fresh love that we get to receive every single day.

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Are you receiving it?

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Or do you find yourself beating yourself up about mistakes and regrets and missed opportunities,

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conversations you wish you could have, memories you wish you could redo?

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Do you find yourself at the end of the day feeling completely spent but still not feeling

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like it was enough, like you're not enough?

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Just let Him love you.

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Do you find yourself striving to do more, to be more, to have more day after day?

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Just let Him love you.

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Maybe you're wondering, well, how do I do that?

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I've lived this way for so long.

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How do I just let Him love me?

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By letting go of condemnation and rejecting the lie that says there is any separation

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between you and God.

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You let Him love you by believing Him, believing what He said, believing He is who He says

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He is, and He said He's love.

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He said He's not leaving you nor forsaking you.

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We should take Him at His word.

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We should do that instead of letting our circumstances try to talk ourselves out of it.

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And what about the fruit?

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What about the loving God and the loving people part?

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I want to tell you more about that, but I'm actually going to talk about that in another

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episode because I know that if I talked about that now, many of you would just cling to

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the fruit part, cling to that producing part, and you wouldn't just let Him love you.

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And the point of this episode, all I want you to focus on this week, is just letting

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Him love you.

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The lifestyle of letting God love you, this believing and receiving Him, is abiding.

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And it will bear much fruit.

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But first, let Him love you.

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Turn off the angry people on the internet.

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Turn off the negative self-talk.

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Let go of all the trying and the striving, and today, let God love you.