I would like to encourage you to choose to live your life to please Jesus only.
People's opinions of you can change daily, but at the end of the day the only opinion that should matter to you is Jesus'. There is no one else on this earth that was crucified for you and that reason alone should be the reason why you should value His opinion over anyone else's. Honey, He thought you were to die for. So, let the insecurities that you have carried thus far fall from you as you channel your inner Shaunie O' Neal and rest in the security of Jesus' love. Romans 5:8 (NKJV) "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Thanks for reading lovelies! Peace & Blessings <3 Nándi
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For a long time I believed that I was too dirty to reach a God so holy and pure. I honestly thought that my sins were too great to reach God at all.
I was very wrong. Here's some backstory: I was at convocation during my freshman year of college. The speaker of the night explained to the crowd that the nails did not keep Jesus on the Cross, love did. My heart began to beat fast, but I felt time stand still. All I could think was 'what kind of love is this and I want it!' I mean I had been a Christian nearly my whole life and NOBODY ever explained Salvation and the Cross like this. All this time I thought that Jesus was loving me out of obligation, not because He actually wanted to. I was desperate for a love that accepted me, and I didn't even know I was introduced to it already. As I made my way to the altar and accepted Jesus Christ into my life again. I found the acceptance I had been searching for and my heart has been overwhelmed with love galore ever since. Ephesians 1:5-6 (NKJV) "having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved." Thanks for reading lovelies! Peace & Blessings <3 Nándi I had a problem... I believed that everyone who expressed interest in a friendship/relationship with me would eventually leave after I disappointed them. So I built walls around my heart to keep from getting too attached to friends, family members and especially God. I did this to avoid the pain that came with loving someone that I truly believed would inevitably leave me once I hurt them. The more that I confronted that thought, the more I realized that I was projecting the demise of the relationship I had with my stepdad onto my other relationships. Here's some backstory: I was raised by my sister's dad on and off until I was about seven years old. All the way up into my teenage years I had a great relationship with him. Then things took a turn for the worse. Our relationship began to crumble under stressful circumstances and lack of communication. For years I blamed myself and thought that I was too difficult. I thought I made it too hard for him to love me so nobody else would, not even God. BUT! I came to the conclusion that... 1. That was a ridiculous way for me to think. 2. Not everyone leaves when presented with obstacles and challenged within a relationship. 3. That type of thinking was low-key a defensive mechanism to keep me from actually allowing healthy relationships and my trust in God to grow in my life out of fear. SO.... To answer the question proposed in the title... I would say CRUSH!!!!!!!! Crush fear, with the LOVE of Jesus Christ and don't you ever allow someone that did not know how to love you keep you from accepting love from a God that does. 1 John 4:18 NKJV "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." Thanks for reading lovelies! Peace & Blessings <3 Nándi |
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