A Moment To Breathe - 5 Day Devotions That Meet You In Your Everyday Mess Sample

DAY 9

If You Know Him

BY SARAH MAE

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. HEBREWS 10:14

HERE I AM, ON my couch crying, again. I will never get it together. I am such a failure. I am just so tired of making plans and lists and self-help do-overs that end right back where I started. I just can’t do it. I can’t fix myself.

It’s been five years since I had a “failure” break down. I was done, over trying to be better, do better, get better. I just kept missing my mark, my perfectionist, pull-myself-up-by-the-bootstraps, getit-together mark. So I sat on my couch and cried out to the Lord. I threw my hands up and said, “I’m done.”

It was as though the Lord was waiting for those very words, because when I finally recognized my deep weakness, when I finally gave in, that is when I was able to grow and mature in Christ by relying on His strength. I am clay, and clay cannot mold itself. He is the molder and perfecter of my faith and my soul and all of me.

And the best, most wonderful life-giving news of all? As He’s intimately molding me toward maturity, He doesn’t look at me as a failure. He looks at me, His beloved daughter, and sees perfection, completeness, because of Jesus Christ. God has already perfected me because I know Him. Yeah, there’s still work to be done with my humanity here on earth, and I’m certainly not perfect here, but where I’m going? Done deal. Perfect. Complete. Right now. What sweet freedom. What grace. What an exhale.

A Moment to Breathe . . . 

Whatever you’re holding on to today, give it to God. Let Him do the work as you put one foot in front of the other by faith in obedience. And breathe deep—He sees you as complete right now.