I just get so sick and tired of hating myself, you know? It's that little voice in the back of my head that continually gets into my business, showing me were I always screw up, telling me how nasty and bad I am, making me think that I have no place in God's Kingdom, no matter how hard I try and how much I love Him and try to love others. No, no, I am a dirty, rotten pedophile, so regardless of anything, I am no good. That's what the voice tells me...I'm just no good at all. Really?

Well, I know who's voice it is and I'll give you three guesses. Here's a hint, it's definately not God. God is not the accuser, the devil is. So the way I see it, it's either the devil trying to get me down, or my own self, or a combination of the two. But it's not God.

My God loves me. His love is greater than my fallibility. He is bigger than my problems and my shortcomings. He knows all about me and loves me and accepts me regardless of what I may or may not accomplish in my life. He wants the very best for me, and has a plan to see that I get the very best and become the very best, regardless of what happens or what I look like on the outside. So here's what I have to say to the accusing voice... I may be down some times, but don't ever count me out!

Yeah....THAT feels good!

Don't ever, ever count yourself out, either; whoever is reading this. God isn't counting you out, so don't ever count yourself out. He isn't through with any of us. Not by a long shot. His plan for all of His children is that they may share in His glory forever. And believe me...He will get His way! You see, our God IS big enough to see it all come to pass. He is big enough. He is all knowing, has the greatest wisdom, and the best, best love. He is our Father and His love for us is unmeasurable! That's hard to imagine, but it's true. How can we ever measure His love? We can't measure it, but we CAN depend on it. Even those who die for Him are going directly into His loving arms. We should never count ourselves out. Counting ourselves out would actually be like counting God out, and you know you don't want to do that.

What we want to do is trust in Him. We aren't perfect, but HE is our perfection. We will never see perfection in this lifetime, but we don't have to...God understands us completely. "But isn't that just an excuse?" Not if you don't want it to be. To me it's more like a big, big relief! That my God is big enough to love me, accept me, and keep me in all my human weaknesses. Is He really that big? Yeah...I think He is. If He is really the God who created all there is, ever was, and ever will be....yeah, I think He is. And I think we, of all people, are just the kind of people Jesus would want to hang out with if He were to come here to visit. Absolutely. Jesus had a long history of hanging with the "wrong" kind of people while He was walking the earth, why would He not want to do so this time? Those people were just the kind of people He wanted to be around because they were curious about him, liked him, or even loved him. Most all of them came to love Him, eventually. Well, that pretty much describes us, right?

Hey...I got news...He DOES walk with us! Every day. His Word tells us that. He will never leave us nor forsake us. So, is our God big enough?

What do you think?