treasured truth

I heard it... in the background... during a phone call with an elderly aunt...

She's talking to a precious niece...

Her husband speaking to the home health nurse that just arrived...

"Les is talking about you. You are a precious niece," she said to me... she continued... so proud... you're parents would be proud... your dad...

Tears well... throat tightens... so unworthy of these words...
My mind fills with all that I know of me... all that God knows... all that He's forgiven... unknown to most... the pain I've caused... my Savior... others... so unworthy...

Hard to hear... when I know who... what... I've done... and been...

One of my struggles... to accept the name... God has given me...
Treasured...
So hard to believe...

But I see it... in His Word...

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrated his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:6-8

(my emphasis)

... Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

 Mark 2:17

(my emphasis)

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 7:6

(emphasis mine)

Hard to believe... to accept... but I must... it is true... all else... lies... from the enemy... meant to kill... steal... and destroy... the life He has prepared for me...

You... do you believe a lie...?

One that says you are unworthy...?

Today... choose to believe Truth... you are... treasured...

Whatever was past... has been made new... in Christ...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;

the old has gone, the new has come!

2Corinthians 5:14

Believe... and live...