You have a future. A bright future
filled with success and great destiny. Not only does the Bible tell
you so, but it's likely you've received numerous prophecies from
church members and leaders declaring the great future you have ahead
of you and the plans God has for you. But for some reason, you just
don't feel like that's you. You don't feel good enough for such a
future.
It is so unfortunate that some of the
world's most successful people today are unbelievers. There are more
Christians than any other faith in the world. Where are they in
society's elite? I have no doubt that they should
be there. The reason they're not? Shame and guilt. Far too many
Christians feel too unworthy to step into their bright destiny and
thus end up settling for mediocre lives. Unbelievers on the other
hand have dreams in their hearts that they pursue with all their
might and aren't ashamed to do so. They don't think twice about
being worthy for such success.
Why is that? I
believe it has to do with how we view God. Too many Christians
intrinsically believe that God is keeping score of their lives and
that they constantly fall short. While unbelievers have so distanced
themselves from consciously being aware of God that they don't care
what He might think, and thus have no hinderance to feeling worthy
enough to go after their dreams.
Whose the better
person of the two? Neither of the two are better than the other.
Both are equally loved by God. The unbelievers are at least
accessing some of their Earthly inheritance. While the believer has
access to the Life Source of the Universe, Jesus Christ. But what
good is having such access if we're not drawing on Him?
God isn't some
distant Being waiting to judge us on the “Last Day” and evaluate
whether we make it into Heaven or not. He is a Father who wants to
see us succeed now. In whatever area it is that we find ourselves.
Whether it be in our Grade 11 mid-year exams, our swimming trials on
the weekend, or an audition for the lead role in a Hollywood
Blockbuster!
Christians are the
most powerful beings on the planet when they realise who they are,
and what their Father is like. An incorrect view of our Father and
ourselves will limit us in our destiny. We are part of a generation
of God's children who will supersede the accomplishments of the
unbelievers in this world. God is removing the cloaks of shame, and
His children are rising up to take their place as those who inherit
the Earth! (Check out Romans 4:13 for confirmation of that promise)
My passion is to
help Christians throw off the shame of not feeling good enough for
God and their bright futures, because I believe when they do, we will
see the world changed. So allow me to take you on a journey of
seeing how much God values you, and how much He wants you to succeed.
Are you ready? Let's go...
First
and foremost, if you are a Christian, God is for you. He is not
against you. And He is most certainly not
holding your sins against you. Check out 2 Corinthians
5:19:
“God was reconciling the world to
Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.”
The Scriptures are
full of this wonderful Truth that God is not counting our sins
against us! Not only does He not hold them against us, He removes
them entirely!
David
had a revelation of this Glorious Truth in Psalm 103:12:
“As far as the East is from the
West, so far has He removed our transgression from us.”
How far is the
East from the West? It's infinite! My friend, your sins have been
infinitely removed! They are gone... FOREVER!
When we Christians
get the revelation that God does not hold our sin against us, we will
realise that He looks at us with Love and passion. He doesn't see
the sin and the failures, because in His mind they have been removed.
And if He doesn't see the sin and the failures, why do we focus on
them? God wants us to move from a “sin-consciousness” to a
“God-consciousness”. For so long, we've focussed on sin. Trying
not to do this sin, exposing that sin, etc. But the point was never
to focus on sin, the point is to focus on the Lover of our souls who
empowers us to change the world!
You
see, it's the devil who has conned us into believing that we aren't
good enough for God, and therefore certainly not good enough to
accomplish anything great and walk into our inheritance. Scripture
tell us that he is
the one that accuses us when we fail, not God! Revelation 12:10
reveals satan as the “accuser of the brothers”. He is the one
accusing us for our failures, not God!
This is why when
Jesus finished His Work on the Cross He disarmed the powers of
darkness. Colossians 2:11 clearly shows us:
“And having disarmed the powers
and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over
them by the Cross!”
The
only power the devil has is to accuse us of our sin and failures.
And God removed that power by removing our sin and failures! It's
because of this Glorious Truth that Paul could declare in Romans 8:1
that “there is therefore
now NO
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!”
Notice
a keyword there? NOW. There is NOW, right now, right this instant,
no matter what you just did, NO
CONDEMNATION! None
whatsoever! None at all! God is not condemning you for anything!
God is not pointing out your failures. It's not His nature. It's
not His will. His will is to point out your bright future and reveal
His Love for you. If you just sinned, He is standing with arms wide
open waiting to Love on you and remind you of your worth as His
child. When you receive that Love, you'll be empowered to change.
The more you realise how much Daddy Loves you, and how great His
plans are for you, the less you will find yourself sinning and
instead pursuing the great destiny He has for you.
Like the vision of Joshua in Zechariah 3:4, the time has come for us
to allow God to remove from us our garment of shame, and wear the
rich garments of royalty. Like the prodigal son in Luke 15:22, we
need to realise our Rich Father has clothed us with His Best Robes
despite our failings.
We are royalty! We are children of the Most High God! We are
princes and princesses of the most powerful Kingdom in the Universe!
There is nothing to be ashamed of!
Rise up, take off your shame and never wear it again. Jesus wore it
for you, and then He destroyed it entirely by dying on the Cross. He
killed your shame! Now take your place as the royal child of God
that you are. And get out there and change the world.
