Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by receiving the love that God has no doubts about.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.
Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind you that God is in everything.
Together, we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
In Galatians chapter 2, verse 20, it says,
that he doesn't already believe.
God binds himself to the same truth that he teaches us to walk in.
We may be struggling to believe that we are one with God, but God is not struggling
to be one with us.
He's not double-minded about you or what he has said about you in his words.
God carries no doubts about you in his heart.
He carries no doubt about the finished work of Jesus.
God is not shifting between, you know, still fixing the old you and then relating to the
new you over here.
No, he is entirely focused on the new creation you have become in Jesus.
The you that is still alive.
Second Corinthians 517 says,
The old has gone.
It's not going away.
It's gone.
And the new is here.
It's not coming around someday.
It is here.
God is so committed to you.
And not because of anything you have done for him, but because of who you are to him.
The Bible says in Hebrews 12 too, that Jesus endured what he did laying down his life on
the cross because of the joy that was set before him.
And you are that joy.
You are his joy.
God is in a relationship with us based in love and joyful affection, not some kind of
forced obligation.
You know, I've had to rethink some things.
I've had to ask myself, am I as joyful as Jesus about this relationship?
Am I as settled in the Father's love for me as Jesus is?
And honestly, the answer used to be no.
I wasn't joyful about it and I definitely wasn't settled because deep down, I didn't
really believe that God was very joyful about me.
I had this nagging doubt that he was always slightly disappointed.
I could only think about all the things that I had yet to become, to do, to perfect.
And honestly, I was just disappointed in myself.
And I thought that meant he was disappointed in me too.
I kept trying to earn his love.
Of course, I didn't call it earning.
No, I called it servant leadership.
I called it volunteering.
I called it bringing my strength.
I called it being a good example.
I called it laying down my life.
And all of those things are good until they're not.
Until they become our way to God.
Until they become what we think pleases God.
Until they become the reason we think God loves us.
Doing well is good until it replaces in our hearts and minds who Jesus is for us and what
he did for us.
Nothing in this relationship with God depends on you.
Everything depends on who God is.
We don't get anything from God because of performance.
We receive everything from God because of our placement in Jesus.
Jesus is your proof that you are completely loved and fully accepted.
You know, today if you find yourself striving in any way to be lovable, to be favored by
God, to matter in his kingdom, there is an invitation for you today to rest and receive
this love from him.
In the kingdom, everything is received by faith.
So today, decide.
God, I'm going to believe what you believe about me.
He longs to show you the love that you long for.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3.
And in Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing
broken.
This is who you are in Jesus.
Let's declare this together.
Today, I am kept.
perfect peace. With my whole heart, I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am
victorious. I am whole. Remember friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus's
ultimate win. Not because of anything you did, but because of what he did for you.
With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and
Satan's defeat on replay.
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