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getting what i deserve

12/1/2015

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I shared these thoughts a while back, but if only for myself I need to share them again. 

Simply put I deserve the BEST. I deserve all that life can offer, and more! I deserve a wonderful wife, kids that make me smile, dogs that don’t eat food off my kitchen counter, and a cat that does NOT hack up hair balls. I deserve true friends, a healthy family, a rich church heritage, and I deserve HEAVEN.

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You may be wondering if have been sippin’ on the ‘Name It, Claim It’ koolaid. Hmmm maybe I have… and maybe I am a ‘Prosperity Gospel’ believer too. I have never spoke in tongues, but who knows.. I might give it a whirl.

So while I have never been on TV, and I live a quiet existence on the frozen tundra of Roseville Mn. But.. I want to get what I deserve!

I do work hard though I continue to make mistakes daily.. maybe on the hour, BUT I DESERVE God’s grace and blessings in my life in a way that are BEYOND MY DREAMS. This means I don’t have to live in regret of past mistakes, and what the devil (there really is one) plans for bad in my life… God can use and bless in ways that I never saw coming.

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I deserve God’s grace because He says I do, and because He is good and kind, and PERFECT.. my sins are forgiven and are only the past, and the past should be a memory free from pain that can now encourage me about this complete forgiveness, and this grace realized for myself and others.

No more hiding of sins.. no more hiding my faults.. I DESERVE better than this. So when I fall, and I might just fall again this very hour.. I will get up.. I will do my best, and I will trust in God while motivated by my desire to Love God with all my soul, heart, and mind, and to love others as I love myself.

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You see I DESERVE a life uncluttered by thoughts and worries focused on me. I DESERVE a life free from guilt, and not reluctant to ask for forgiveness.

I DESERVE the very best in life.. PROSPERITY measured in service.. HAPPINESS uncluttered by circumstances, a CLEAR CONSCIENCE because of God’s limitless grace.

Now most of you probably do not let your mind wander in circles like mine obviously does like a hamster in a wheel, but for those who are tired, depressed, sick, burdened with the weight of the world.. YOU DESERVE MORE. You deserve the best that God has to offer. His best for you may or
may not be fame and fortune, health and adventure… but HIS BEST which you deserve is the peace and perspective that passes all understanding or any circumstance.

They say money can’t buy you happiness, but it helps calm the nerves… BUT whether rich or poor, famous or obscure, fat or skinny, or any other nook or cranny of this world’s class system.. we can be content… and living unafraid, and enjoying the lives we have in ways that are beyond what we
have yet to experience.

I forget (ironically) but there was some study (or urban legend) that says we use 10% of our brain.. well I believe we as believers experience only a fraction of the blessings God wants us to experience… and only a fraction of the blessings WE DESERVE as his children.
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May God bless each of us with lives blessed by God in ways that are NEVER limited by our abilities, but are truly BLESSED BEYOND OUR DREAMS and as God intends, and what WE DESERVE as his children.

Jeff

note: I do realize all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isaiah 64:6.  The point of sharing 'getting what i deserve' is not a focus on my relative goodness, but instead on God's Grace and love that is greater than all my sins. Romans 5:20  

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