This is an affirmation that I wrote early one morning after studying John 4. May it inspire and encourage you...
The kind of love that God has shown me through Christ is the kind of love that I deserve from a man of God. I do not have to sacrifice my body, or give in to lustful pleasures to please a man because Jesus already sacrificed His body. He ignored His pain, His needs, and His desires in order to give me a better future. So, the man who loves me like Christ loved the church should be willing to ignore his so-called needs until we are married, in order to ensure that we both have a better future together. And, I do not have to compromise because I am God's child. I do not have to be someone that I am not to get another person to love me because Jesus loves me just as I am. I am not perfect, and I never will be on this side of Heaven. But, I am unique, and God gave me my character and personality. God has not asked me to be perfect. He has asked me to show love through obedience. Even though, God knows I am not perfect, I am still a part of His family, and when He sees me through Jesus' eyes, washed in Jesus' blood, He sees perfection. I still struggle to be all that God wants me to be through the imperfect circumstances of life; yet God shows me that He still loves me even in the hardest times. So, the man who loves me like Christ loves the church should accept me for who I am as long as I am living for God, in obedience to His Will and working for His Kingdom. If he does not, then it is not love, not God-love. When I lean and trust solely in God and stop looking around at others and start looking up, I am satisfied in the joy of my salvation. I have to stop looking at what I am not and focus on who I am; the person that God made me to be. I have to stop looking at what I do not have and start praising for what I do have. You cannot worship in sprit and in truth when you are living a lie. The truth is that I am worthy of more than I have given myself credit for, but I did not comprehend my worth until I met a Man who knew everything about me. I will no longet thirst for a man to fill my needs. I have met the Living Water, and He has quenched my thirst. Ms. EV
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