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Approved

Approved

I was consumed in justifying myself apart from God, and it left me worn out, tired, and empty. Every day, I would run as hard as I could trying to find value and worth in everything else but where it was all the time—in God. I looked for it in the approval of my father, my mother, in others, in two marriages, in money, in achievement, in position and in power…I’m sure there are more places.

I spent so much time pursuing acceptance in these places that I lost everything that mattered. I became the sum total of all the expectations that I placed on my life giving up my identity, my true self just to belong. I discovered that many of the places I looked for love and acceptance never truly accepted or loved me back. What I did discover in the journey out of the midnight of my soul was that loving God is what my heart desired and what’s really awesome—He accepts me for who I am and…loves me back.

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July 23, 2012 Filed Under: Life Tagged With: courage, heart, Jesus, life, marriage, self, self-worth

Jesus, Since I Met You

Jesus, Since I Met You

Since I Met You…

More lovely is the sound
Of the birds in song,
Since I met You,
Since to You I belong.

More blue is the sky,
More brilliant the sun,
Since I met You,
Since I found the One.

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July 15, 2012 Filed Under: Faith Tagged With: guest, Jesus, journey, poetry

Immeasurable!

Immeasurable!

Looking for my value, my self-worth, and my identity with position and success, I would always choose a safe retreat into my hiding place of counterfeit affirmation — selling my soul to my work. Receiving the glory of man through the recognition of another successful project; earning more money; advancing to that next, higher title on the corporate ladder, I continued to retreat from the pain and insecurities of my fractured life, protecting my empire as I chased my American dream with a blind devotion. The dream of this empire was something I wanted so badly that I failed to listen to that little voice inside trying to warn me that I was walking down a bad path. I would continue to perform on the world stage desperately trying to gain my identity. Ignoring the inner sadness slowly tightening around me, I didn’t realize that underneath this drive was a deep desire to just be accepted. I became a slave to my own empire, running without a purpose, and I didn’t even know it.

(Excerpt from Heartstone Copyright © 2009 by Tim Young. All rights reserved.)

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April 27, 2012 Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: identity, Jesus, life, self-worth, success, value

Because He Loves Us That Much!

Because He Loves Us That Much!

What is Easter to you? What are you doing for Easter?

Could you imagine Jesus wandering onto the scene of an Easter egg hunt or seeing excitement around Easter baskets? Easter is not about coloring eggs, kids hunting for them, Easter baskets or even enjoying a big meal with friends and family. It can include these things, but Easter is about the death and resurrection of Jesus!

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April 7, 2012 Filed Under: Faith Tagged With: broken, faith, gospel, heart, holiday, Jesus, life, love, story

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Life is hard! When you enter into relationship with God it doesn't make it easier, it just means that youre doing the hard stuff with God. -Tim Young

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If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan? -Jeremiah 12:5 (NIV)

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