This is a little piece of what God said to me at the AELM Conference we attended this past weekend.<\/p>\n
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves”\u00a0 2 Corinthians 4:7<\/em><\/p>\n Jesus is the treasure in my weak, frail body.\u00a0 He is the potter.\u00a0 I am the clay. He is the creator.\u00a0 I am the creature.<\/p>\n What does this mean?\u00a0 It means I don’t have to be strong because I was created to depend on God’s strength.\u00a0 It’s okay to be weak.\u00a0 I don’t have to be right because I was created to depend on\u00a0His righteousness.\u00a0 It’s okay to be wrong.\u00a0 I don’t have to be in control because I was created to depend upon His control.\u00a0\u00a0It’s okay that I can’t control others or my circumstances.\u00a0 I don’t have to be perfect because I was created to depend on His perfection.\u00a0 It’s okay to fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n For most of my life I have strived to appear strong, right, in control, and perfect.\u00a0 This has led to much conflict and frustration and bondage.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I can’t do it.\u00a0 I fail everyday, which leads to guilt and condemnation and trying harder to perform.\u00a0 Praise God for the victory that is ours through Christ Jesus!!\u00a0 I am free!!\u00a0 Free to fail, free to be weak, free to mess up, free to be wrong, free to be out of control.\u00a0 I am not supposed to be perfect, strong, right, or in control.\u00a0 That’s the Creator’s job.\u00a0 I am the creature:-)\u00a0 My job is simply to depend upon and draw\u00a0life from my Creator.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rebecca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a little piece of what God said to me at the AELM Conference we attended this past weekend. “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves”\u00a0 2 Corinthians 4:7 Jesus is the treasure in my weak, frail body.\u00a0 He is the potter.\u00a0 I am the clay. He is the creator.\u00a0 I am the creature. What does this mean?\u00a0 It means I don’t have to be strong because I was created to depend on God’s strength.\u00a0 It’s okay to be weak.\u00a0 I don’t have to be right because I was created to depend on\u00a0His righteousness.\u00a0 It’s okay to be wrong.\u00a0 I don’t have to be in control because I was created to depend upon His control.\u00a0\u00a0It’s okay that I can’t control others or my circumstances.\u00a0 I don’t have to be perfect because I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}