Beautifully Different

Those Who Will Taste And See His Goodness!
Sons and Daughters Who Find Their Value In Being Set Apart!

You say we want to be like the nations like the peoples of the world who serve wood and stone. But what you have in mind will never happen. Ezekiel 20: 32

I read this scripture and I laughed.
Because I thought yep, that’s the human condition.
I was saved at 7, receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, getting baptized in the river by my Father and brother.

After that, I didn’t think like people did around me.
I had different goals, and focuses.
And I recall just wanting to be normal, like everyone else in middle school and high school.
I just wanted to fit in, think like other people, be normal.
Because I didn’t know the gift I had been given by being different, Being His as such a young age.
I didn’t know how valuable it was to have a special relationship with God as a child.
I didn’t know what a gift it was as a young child to want and seek the things of God, His word, obeying Him as child.
I actually thought it was a burden.

Because I would know what the right things were to do, when it looked like people around me were getting to have fun and here I was being responsible.

Because I didn’t know that God was good.
Because I didn’t know that He was offering me a better way.

I didn’t realize I was believing the oldest lie in the Bible.
It was the lie that Eve believed.
That God was withholding good from me.

I knew the scripture that no good thing does He withhold for those who walk uprightly.
And the only way to walk uprightly is to receive Jesus’s perfect sacrifice on the cross.
So I thought then why don’t I have the things I think I should have.

Either that lie fed this deep spirit of rejection in me or the spirit of rejection led me to believe this lie.

Regardless, I have found that God is deliciously good, good to me, good to all people, offering all people Himself and so much more.
He set me free from not only that rejection spirit, loving me, healing me into wholeness, but also showing me over and over and over and over again, that really He is so good to me.
That He has offered me wonderful amazing blessings.
And He showed me what was really good.

But it was only when I really got alone with Him, that He was able to break me of this lie.
That I was able to see His goodness in my life.
That I was able to see His wisdom in what He was teaching me.

At first it was through sweet offering, times with Him, answers to prayers that I saw His goodness to me.

But then I truly found His Unfailing Higher Than The Skies goodness, through the worst seasons of my life, having His generous giving present love show up in powerful ways.

May we know that we know that we know that all people have sought a sense of belonging, value and worth in this life, but the only, only, only, place we find the one that fills us, gives us what we need, our completeness, is found in and through Jesus Christ, the Lord of All.

May we know that we know that we know if we have not yet found this truth, we can ask Him to show us and He will be faithful to show us!

love kathlynn