Take My Hand Inspirations
What’s Wrong With You?
You
cry because you feel you’re not perfect.
You hide because you are afraid to show the real you because you think
no one will accept you for who you really are.
You feel . . . rejected. Please,
dear one, get off your high horse and come down to earth. The rest of us “ordinary” human beings are waiting
to take your hands and bring you
home.
Home
is where you are free to love and grow and fall and get up and fall again and
get up again and grow and grow and grow. . . until you shine brilliantly on
your own. Have you forgotten Psalm 139:14,
that [you] are fearfully and wonderfully
made? Grandma once told me: “God
don’t make junk. So you’ve got something
precious inside you, because that’s all that God creates: precious things,
unique things, wonderful things. Just
look around at all the beauty of nature.
Everywhere, beautiful!”
Psalm
139:14 actually gives glory to God: I
praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your
works; my soul knows it very well.
Then
what’s wrong with you? Are you too black
or too white? Too rich or too poor? Can’t sing well? Weak in mathematics? Is your head too big or too small? How do you know what is imperfect in
you? And can you question God about how
He formed you in your mother’s womb? (Job 40:2, 8). Stop looking down on yourself and praise God
for what He’s done in you. You belittle
God’s work in you when you find fault in yourself. It saddens Him to know you don’t appreciate
what gifts He’s given you.
Beware of
comparing yourself with others. One woman can sing so powerfully, you feel
that the heavenly angels have come down to dance! Another man is so financially strong, you’re
amazed at his business acumen. Good. Be
o.k. with the strengths of others. But
don’t you see that they, too, admire your gift of hospitality, your ability to
bring all different kinds of people together in perfect enriching social
fellowship? And, even in high school,
you were chosen as “Most Likely to Succeed” because you drew classmates from
all walks of life together with your inspiring personality. Where others lack, you are strong; and where
you lack, others are there to make you strong.
Give
praise to God! That’s the whole point of
creation: each part of creation, including each one of us, is like a puzzle
piece fixing itself in to complete the big universal picture. Your strengths connect to my weaknesses (not
imperfections) and my strengths connect to another’s weaknesses until we are
all built up strong (all weaknesses blotted out), united in the universal
picture entitled: the Harmony of Humanity.
Understanding
this principle, where are the imperfections?
God knew that you could not be Him.
Only He is 100% perfect. He is
God. Humanity is pure dust, clay formed by
the hands of God. But we are fearfully and wonderfully made
because our Great Creator God put His likeness into each of us with His breath;
and we became what He said is, “Good.”
So
there it is: There
is nothing wrong with you. You are packaged exactly the way God
wanted. Stop looking outside yourself at
the “specialness” of others and
celebrate what is uniquely fabulous about you.
What can you lose by sharing your great self? A supportive smile, sincere appreciation, joy
unspeakable and loving relationships?
Come on, dear one, celebrate you!
A Praise Song for Our Father, Our Creator
Taught to me by Grandma:
Thank
you Lord, for loving me the way that you do, do , do.
Thank
you Lord, for loving me the way that you do, do, do.
I’m
gonna praise You with my song.
I’m
gonna praise You all day long.
Thank
you Lord, for loving me the way that you do, do , do.
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