Love

I don't know about you, but I have many times where it feels like I've screwed something up so badly that there's no way anyone could love me.  And it's at that time that I find myself turning to what have become my favorite verses of all time; 1 Peter 2:4-5.

They say, "Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."  

And later on, verses 9 and 10 say, "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy."  
And no matter how terrible I feel, those verses change my whole mindset!  God has chosen you and me and has called us "precious"!!  How wonderful are those sweet words!  Those words, spoken from a human, would mean a lot but...spoken from God?  They lift my soul; my innermost being.  There's no way anything on this earth could even come close to that feeling!  My Bible loves to open to Peter, because I have to remind myself, over and over, that my God loves me more than I can even fathom.  How blessed are we, as Christians, to be able to press into that love and experience it more deeply every day!

<3 Mik