Perfectly Redeemed

How many of us lived a life on our own terms? It brought my life much disaster, wrong thinking, self hatred, distructive behavior and pain. I never understood why I suffered sexual abuse, physical abuse, rape, and never was enough. I hated myself so much and never understood how or if anyone would ever love me. I got a dui and when I said yes to Jesus he redeemed my heart from that dark place and rescued the little girl that for so many years was hurt. The enemy caused all these abuses to run rampantly in my family for many generations before me. By the power of Christ, it was broken with me! before Jesus I rebeled, I ran and when I look back now, there were so many times when I should have been dead or in prison but GOD! God, So rich in mercy covered me, and loved me still even though he saw and knew everything. He understood the brokeness and the pain and the running. He still fought for me and ventured through all of my self inflicted darkness, walking behind me waiting for me to fall into his loving arms. He accepted me far before i could ever accept myself. What an amazingly loving father! Jesus trampled death and the lies of the serpent by coming to die for us because of LOVE! We get to also trample the head of the serpent everytime we choose worship and praise over dwelling in the sadness of circumstance or uncertainty. As Joyce Meyer has said so many times before, "we give the enemy a nervous breakdown!"

Thank you JESUS for your love and for redeeming me. I don't have to hide or be someone else because I was accepted and chosen by God even before time. I'll be accepted, chosen and loved from now until the end of eternity