I Will Love You Forever by Cori Salchert

Author:Cori Salchert [Salchert, Cori; Herring, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683226796
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

“You believe with all your might in justification by grace alone through faith alone on the basis of Christ’s righteousness alone to the glory of God alone. And when you stumble and act inconsistently with that profession of glorious acceptance, you hate it. You get up. You confess your sins and you keep on going, because his righteous is the bottom line, not yours. His righteousness is the bottom line.”1

My hope was in God, but I had no short, pat answer for my coworker, so I shrugged my shoulders and once more threw myself at Jesus’ chest and asked for mercy and grace.

I’m quite aware that there are those who still feel my life is a joke and that I haven’t lived up to what I have “preached” to be true. This is a source of grief that I brought shame to Jesus’ name even though it was my decision, not His, to be a fool.

One valuable lesson learned from the whole experience is that no challenge I have—whether it be a job, a relationship, or my inability to control my health—is worth taking my own life. I can choose not to be defined by the roles I play in my life: a mom, a wife, a friend, an employee. I can choose to be strong should those roles change or be taken away from me. What I do does not define who I am. Nothing should have that kind of power over my heart and mind and soul.

My desire to be a “rock star” and make people happy was an elusive pursuit and a futile one. Living for the approval of others isn’t safe. How many folks need to think I’m good or amazing or worthwhile? There will always be somebody who is unhappy with me.

If life’s about being good enough, I’m utterly overdrawn at the bank.

What a precious gift God gave me to help me fall completely short and not be enough. This concept is spelled out in Romans 3:23: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (NIV).

This verse is for everyone. No one is good. No one is enough. We’re all sinners. Trying to keep our lives together and be as good as possible doesn’t work.

How freeing to finally quit trying so hard to be good enough. It’s all because of Jesus that I’m alive and have anything good going on in my life.

The enemy taunted me for years, pointing out my flaws! The subtlety by which he accuses is this: he uses portions of the truth—I am all those things I never wanted to be.

And now when the enemy tosses my miserable and multiple failures in my face, I imagine seeing Jesus walking along the Sea of Galilee. He looks up and sees me. His face breaks into a huge grin, and He beckons me with His whole arm, not just a couple of fingers, to come to Him, to come running. He tosses both arms wide and envelops me in a hug and draws me close to His side.

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