Colossians 1:21-22<\/p>\n
“And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach”<\/p>\n
As I sat down to read my Bible the other day, I prayed that the Holy Spirit would reveal truth to my heart through the scripture, and that is exactly what He did.\u00a0 I read the verses above and asked the question to myself, “What does it mean that I am holy, blameless, and beyond reproach?”\u00a0 Those\u00a0are churchy words that I have memorized, but I don’t really know what they mean.\u00a0 Then God answered my question in one of those “light bulb coming on” or “ah-ha moments”.\u00a0 It means that “I am okay!\u00a0 I am acceptable!\u00a0 I am good enough!<\/strong>”\u00a0 This spoke right to my heart because when I depend on my flesh, I often feel\/think that something’s wrong with me,\u00a0I’m unacceptable, or\u00a0I’m not good enough.\u00a0 Now I have a deeper personal understanding of the truth that\u00a0destroys those lies.\u00a0 Thank you, Jesus!<\/p>\n Rebecca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colossians 1:21-22 “And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach” As I sat down to read my Bible the other day, I prayed that the Holy Spirit would reveal truth to my heart through the scripture, and that is exactly what He did.\u00a0 I read the verses above and asked the question to myself, “What does it mean that I am holy, blameless, and beyond reproach?”\u00a0 Those\u00a0are churchy words that I have memorized, but I don’t really know what they mean.\u00a0 Then God answered my question in one of those “light bulb coming on” or “ah-ha moments”.\u00a0 It means that “I am okay!\u00a0 I am acceptable!\u00a0 I am good enough!”\u00a0 This spoke right to my heart because when 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\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}