For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:15-21

As a teen, in school, although my grades were good, I was not popular. My family wasn’t wealthy, I wasn’t athletic and I came from the kind of family that would cause you to be concerned about letting your children play with me.

But, I wanted to be different. Different than who I was and different than my parents were.  I didn’t want to be a failure when I grew up.

I wanted to be a good mom, I wanted to be a home owner, I wanted to be successful!  I knew what success wasn’t (or at least I thought I did), but I didn’t know what “success” was?

Well, all my desires didn’t amount to much. I did work hard and was blessed with good jobs, but I still wasn’t popular, wasn’t wealthy and I wasn’t “successful”. In fact, my life looked a lot like my parents.

By the world’s definition, I was a failure.

Then when my life was in one of the most difficult times I’ve known, I met the lover of my soul.

He didn’t offer me fame, He didn’t offer me wealth or success. He offered me love (We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19), He offered me forgiveness (If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9) and He offered to adopt me and to call me His daughter (The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, Romans 8:16). He even said that He wanted me to be prosperous (For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.) and that He had work, that He already had planned, for me to do (For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10).

I gave my heart and my life to Jesus Christ and by the worlds standards, I am still a failure. I am not wealthy, I am not famous and I am not “successful”.

But, through the blood of Jesus I am forgiven, I am loved, I serve my Heavenly Father and my reward is in Heaven waiting on me. I am the righteousness of God. I am a daughter of the KING OF KINGS! Through the blood of my Savior, I am victorious over sin and death (1 Corinthians 15:56-57 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ)! I will spend eternity in Heaven with my Savior! If that isn’t success, I don’t know what is.

I may be a failure by the worlds standards, but I am one spiritually victorious follower of Christ! And so are YOU, if Jesus is your Lord and Savior!

I pray that today we would realize how AWESOME we are in Christ! Not because of anything we do or have done, but because of who He is, what He has done and what He wants to do through us. He forgave, rescued, loves and walks with us. We are the beloved children of the creator of everything! Our Heavenly Father is deeply in love with us and calls us His own and we have the ability, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, to glorify our Father in Heaven and to be used by Him to rescue other lost and broken “failures” from the grip of the enemy. I pray that we would serve God with a heart full of gratitude for all that He has done and that we would remember who we are, in Him…dearly loved sons and daughters of the KING OF KINGS!

If you do not know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and you have felt like a failure and perhaps even suffered with some of your own failures, I pray that you would go to our life preserver page right now and pray the prayer that is outlined there. Jesus died, so that you too could be victorious. Please pray that prayer. And, once you have, reach out to me at admin@forgiven-n-loved.com, I’d love to be in prayer for you.

Luv Ya!