He makes much of us because much of us equals much of Him!

I used to think in order to make much of God there needed to be a lot less of me. At the beginning of 2011 that was my prayer and what I wrote in my journal. Lord let there be more of you and less of me!

I thought it was a great prayer and expressed my honor of God above all things. Yes I want more of him being seen through my life, more of his compassion and kindness, more of his forgiving heart, more of his power, more of his humility, more of him in every way!

God has been showing me that I don’t value myself as highly as he does and so my prayer was coming out of an orphan heart.

I am a new creation. The old has gone and the new has come. When God looks at me he sees my loveliness in Christ. I am a fragrance to him, a unique fragrance that isn’t like anyone else’s. He notices when I walk into the room.

He loves the way he made me, the way I talk, the way I sing, the way I look, my sense of fun. He loves the things I give to him even when I feel so disappointed with what I give him. Like a child’s drawing he puts it on the fridge. He loves me when I mess up, when I get it wrong. Oh how he loves me all the time.

I’ve got it so wrong thinking that he only loves me when I am displaying all the good stuff of him. That’s why when I’ve been performing well I’ve felt pleased with myself and thought God was pleased too but the truth is he is pleased with me all of the time.

And not just when I prophesy or pray and see someone healed.

I don’t have to do anything at all for God to love me.

If this is true, which it is, then it means I can relax just being with him without having to do anything to impress him. I impress him by just being who I am, who he made me to be! A flower doesn’t have to do anything to bring praise to God. Just being a flower is praise to Him.

I have wondered why God would use me to show his glory when I think I am still so imperfect but he has shown me that because I am in Christ, Christ is my perfection! He is changing me from one degree of glory to another and in the process he never stops delighting in me.  Ps 18:19 says 'because he delights in me he saved me' and Romans 5:8 says, 'while I was still a sinner with no thought of him, he died for me because he loved me and delighted in me'