Believe what God believes about you

(Read this aloud to yourself each morning and evening for the next 30 days, then evaluate how your feelings about yourself have changed)

1 Corinthians 13 paraphrased

Because God loves me, He is slow to lose patience with me.
Because God loves me, He takes the circumstance of my life and uses them in a constructive way for my growth.
Because God loves me, He does not treat me as an object to be possessed and manipulated.
Because God loves me, He has no need to impress me with how great and powerful He is
because He is God. Nor does he belittle me as His child in order to show me how important He is.
Because God loves me, He does not send down His wrath on every little mistake I make, of which there are many.
Because God loves me, He does not keep score of all my sins and then beat me over the head with them whenever He gets a chance. Because God loves me, He is deeply grieved when I do not walk in the ways that please Him
because He sees this as evidence that I don’t trust Him and love Him as I should.
Because God loves me, He rejoices when I experience His power and strength and stand up under the pressure of life for His name’s sake.
Because God loves me, He keeps working patiently with me even when I feel like giving up and can’t see why He doesn’t give up on me too.
Because God loves me, He keeps on trusting me when at times I don’t even trust myself.
Because God loves me, He never says there is no hope for me, rather, He patiently works with me,
loves me and disciplines me in such a way that it is hard for me to understand the depth of His
concern for me. Because Goti loves me, He never forsakes me even though many of my friends might.
Please be patient with me. God isn’t finished with me yet. That is certainly true! As we look at a
particular area in our lives, we can be tempted to break into tears of discouragement because we
feel so defeated. But God is still working in our lives, and He will never give up on us as long as we seek His mercy from our hearts.
There is a void in each of our lives that cannot be filled by the world. We may leave God or put Him on hold, but He is always there.
He patiently waits for us to run our race, becoming fatigued in the process, and then to turn back to Him.
As you become secure in God’s love, you will discover that you need not surrender your caring for
yourself to the opinions and judgments of others. God is for you!
God, my Father God, negative inner voices would love
To convince me that I am a nobody, but the Holy Spirit continually challenges me to believe that I am of value
to God and will be with Jesus in Heaven. Can I believe God when He tells me that I was so important to Him that
He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for my sins? Yes, I can! I am special to God.
Let me believe it and live it.
Amen.