Have you failed? Fallen flat? Made a serious mistake?
You aren’t disposable! God does not have plans to toss you aside when ruinous things come; He is with you all the way. The wheels of life will spin, and things may come that are ruinous, but you are in the hands of a loving, faithful God. Instead of simply bypassing you and discarding you, God demonstrates to us He would rather fix someone or something when it breaks.
In Psalm 37, God speaks of how He cares for us:
Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) “Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.”
God is in the business of fixing broken things and when you are ruined, He will make you into something new. This is why there is a great freedom in serving Him when you remember His love, grace, mercy and truth. He will give you His desires.
When you are ready to serve God in your church and in your community, you need to remember that Heaven is going to be filled with every tongue, tribe, nation and background of people. Keep in mind, that they may have been in darkness so long that they don’t know how to deal with light, and if you don’t understand the fruit of the spirit and have them in your heart, you could end up hurting people in the name of Jesus. This is where you need to understand the Father’s heart (one of mercy, compassion, restoration, reconciliation, grace, patience, love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self- control), because the people that you will serve need to know His heart too, and the main way they will understand it is Him through you. People matter to God.
You matter to God. What greater foundation to serve others than the beautiful grace you have received. If you have been dealt with graciously then turn around treat others the same way!
Mark 12:30–31 (NKJV) “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
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