As always, I had an amazing visit with my prayer accountability partner yesterday. We spoke of how we all fall short in obeying God; and of the resulting battle in our mind of what we feel we “deserve”…..and I was gently reminded:

The enemy’s greatest strength is deception; and he knows our weaknesses. It’s as if, during a rainstorm of life, he draws us in to play in an “innocent” mud puddle. Then once we are mired in filth and our eyes are blurred by the stinging mud, he brings out the “big guns”….he makes us believe we are no longer “worthy” of Christ. The weight of sin and consequences can be a terrible burden; but if we reach the end of ourself, and accept Christ’s loving intervention we can have Victory.

But…often, the battle is still not “over” in our minds. So we MUST stand on the TRUTH of God’s Word that says we have been “washed white as snow by the blood of the lamb”. Our feeble mind’s belief that His blood is sufficient isn’t what makes it sufficient. God’s ACCEPTANCE of it is what makes it SUFFICIENT. And we can rest in that TRUTH….IF we let ourselves…

In visiting with her, I saw so clearly how the world tells us that we “deserve LESS” because of what we’ve done. BUT GOD…HIS GRACE is SUFFICIENT…and isn’t it so like GRACE…to give us His BEST…when we don’t believe that we “deserve” it. And although it flies in the face of earthly “reason”, it is perfectly sensible in God’s eyes…because we do “deserve” His Best–not by anything that we have done but through the work done on the cross.

And when we receive His BEST, it is a much more beautiful testimony…because HE gets the GLORY. So Trust God and hold out for His BEST…and let God’s GRACE be SUFFICIENT enough for you.

That’s what the enemy desperately wants us to never realize…because that is where true Victory lies in overcoming his lies. 🙂

“T here is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1, 2 NKJV)

“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place” (2 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV)