Friends, it’s time to fix our eyes on Jesus and take them off of ourselves and our inadequacies. Maybe the mistakes of your past weigh on your mind more than the beauty of His face. Maybe you’re in chemo treatment for cancer and think God can’t use you. Will you let Him? Or maybe you’re a divorced mom of two and think God can’t use you. In the grocery store line, changing that 27th diaper, sitting at your laptop typing from your heart, showing up to the office for yet another day, teaching a classroom full of children. No matter where you find yourself today, He can use you. That reason is to give Him glory WITH those things you may not love about yourself!! He can use you whether you are shy/outgoing, talkative/quiet, a writer/singer/teacher/cashier/mom. The very things you hate about yourself, God gave you for a reason. The mistakes of the past can become your message of redemption.

The hard places, the weaknesses, they are given so that God’s glory can shine through those broken places. You can point others to Jesus with your gifts. You have unique gifts that the world needs. And sweet friends, I want YOU to hear this message because I know some of you need it as much as I do. Just another person.īut, in God’s eyes, I am so much more than just another blogger/writer/person.

Why do I write on this blog? Why do I work so hard to create these resources for you? You aren’t good enough to be a writer. If I let myself, I will dwell on the negative and the questions and I will feel like God could never use anyone like me. Isn’t He good like that? In fact, He takes the brokenness and the questions and He makes them into something beautiful. The Lord has continued to work in my heart despite my doubts. Why am I so sensitive? Why do I get offended? Why do I cry so easily? Why don’t I enjoy talking on the phone? Why do I need time to myself to recharge? Why is quiet so hard to come by - and why do I need it so much? Why am I so terrible at small talk? Am I just a bad friend? My word this year is CONFIDENCE and for me, at least in what God is doing in my heart, confidence and bravery really are one in the same.įor so many years I have lived my life insecure and questioning why God made me the way He did.

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