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When You Forget Who You Are

9/15/2012

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I love Zephaniah 3:17, "The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." I think of this verse when I wake up with a song in my head. This morning I woke up with the phrase from a song, "I won't give up on us" and immediately I knew the Lord was singing that over me while I was sleeping. 

My first reaction was, "Wow God" and almost immediately afterward, "But that sounds like our relationship is on the rocks or something. I'm close to You. I spend time with You and hear from You." My reaction exposed my heart of how quick I can be me-centered, works based and performance oriented. I felt the need to defend my relationship with God, not based on what He had done on the cross, but on what I do. 

Not a couple hours later I showed up at church for the Experiencing God conference my church is putting on. I had forgotten my special name tag, given to me because I had been part of the organizing committee putting it on. And when I realized I forgot it I almost immediately started wrestling with if I should go home and get it for the motive of parading my importance. Again, not finding my importance in what Christ did, but in what I do and what others think about that. Yuck! I didn't get it and embraced the correction the Lord was bringing about in my heart.

What a gracious God that can put a mirror up for me to see my heart yet in such a gracious way. Truly His kindness leads to repentance. 
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Dawn Paoletta link
9/15/2012 07:48:56 am

Sweet lesson. God is good. I am receiving your lesson as my own as well! He is so good to gently lead us along His path of grace! THanks for sharing, Laura!

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patsy link
9/15/2012 08:22:29 am

It is good to stay connected with God because he will always show us where we need to correct our alignment with Him! Why, even Peter in Mark 8 needed correcting when Jesus said, "Get behind me satan!" Peter was thinking as human beings do! Blessings!

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Carly link
9/15/2012 09:50:48 am

Laura, I love how you let the Lord lead all your steps and teach you new things. You are the most open, teachable person I know. SO cool how you are finding more identity in Him. Jesus, please grow EVEN MORE of who you are in Laura because she has a heart hungry for you.

P.S. I just wrote a devotional on Zeph 3 (specifically v 17 stuck out to me too) that will post next Tuesday. That is the most beautiful verse :)

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