Because when the world makes fun of me, and questions me, and points out all my mistakes, and adds burden to my heart and mind and body... there is one that I can go to that calls me friend, daughter, beloved, and wanted... so badly that he was willing to give up his life for mine, to set me free from it all. How can I not follow him?
Romans 6:19-23 (Message Version)
19I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?
20-21As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.
22-23But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
He loves you too, no matter how unworthy or wonderful you think you are! If you want to know more ask me!!! :) I'm open to questions, comments, anything... no question is a bad question.
