Why is it that most of us look in the mirror and see nothing but imperfection. Past failure, shortcomings, and hurting people left in our wake?
When I look in the mirror I rarely see anything that resembles Holiness. Righteousness and living Righteously sometimes seems to be just out of reach, an illusion or mirage that is either unattainable or simply not real. 

The things that I desire to do, those are the things I seem not to be able to do, and the things that I don’t want to do seem to be the things I end up doing. (Romans 7:21-25)

Sound familiar to you? Most of us, I think, wrestle with this. As Believers and Christ followers we have higher expectations for ourselves. We want our lives to honor God. We want to live our lives in a way that can point others to Jesus Christ. And yet we often seem to wrestle with the very same things that the world wrestles with.

Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 declares blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has given us E V E R Y spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places in Christ. Those things that we couldn’t gain for ourselves like Holiness Justification, Sanctification, Redemption, Adoption all of those things are given to us freely in Christ. We couldn’t do anything to get them we can’t do anything to improve upon them or perfect them and nothing we can do can cause us to lose them, because they’re a gift to us from God in Christ. I can come boldly into the throne room enter into the holy of holies not because of my own holiness but because of the fact that I am declared Holy in Christ. That gives me no room for boasting no room for pride or arrogance but thankfulness and a desire to live a life that pleases The God Who created me and took my imperfection and perfected it in Christ so that my eternal Destiny is not dependant upon me but is found to already exist in Him by faith.

When you look next in the mirror, the man you see may not be perfect, but by grace through a personal faith in the completed work of Christ, he is perfected. In Christ you are Holy, Redeemed, Forgiven, Justified, Adopted into Gods own family and joint heirs with Jesus Himself. 

Somehow knowing that has helped me live my life in this corrupt flesh a little easier. 

Focused on who God says I am in Christ and intentionally living my life out of that truth gives me the ability to over come the lies of the enemy, who is constantly attempting to deceive me into believing that I am something less than God says I am….It will help you as well…Jesus loves you and so do I

BE A MAN AFTER GODS OWN HEART…BE A MAN LIKE DAVID.