You Are Already
I awoke this morning, as many mornings, with thoughts of the day and week before funneling through my conscious mind. After several of them cleared, I turned my inner heart to God and said to Him, “I want to be acceptable in your sight." photo credit: fuzzbucket/deviantart And He quickly replied, inaudibly, but I ever so clearly heard, “You are already." You are acceptable and approved. Jesus is all of this for you. Jesus did all of it for you. In Jesus, and you are in Jesus, you already are. Oh, how we wander away from the simple facts of faith. We get concerned that we are not included by humans. We are not asked. We are not invited. We are not offered ______________. You and I can both fill in that blank of everything we ponder that we think we want or need, but that has not yet been. And then we forget the fact that it is: God, not people, determines our acceptance and approval. God meets all of our needs. God opens doors and closes them. God or