Scriptures......You Are Worthy

Why is it, that when we are down, hurting, and needing love and nurturing, we run from Christ?  This question plagues me.  I ponder it often. Just recently, I was struggling with an emotional situation, hurting inside, feeling unworthy, yet I did not stop, get on my knees and go before the one who forgives, loves, and can heal me.  Instead, I tried to wrestle with it myself, hurting all the while.  I know I am not the only one.  This is a frequent topic of conversation in our bible study group. Hurting...run from Christ. Make a misstep...run from Christ. Take a giant leap right into the pit...run from Christ.  We do it every day.

We must STOP!  I don't know why we do it, I do it too, but we must STOP!  Jesus Christ, our Savior, came here for one reason.  To save us!  Without our hurting, missteps and flat out leaping into the pit, there would have been no need for him to have come.  He knows it all and he loves us anyway. We are worthy.  Not because of who we are, but because of who he is.  Run to him.  Stop running away from him and run to him.  Let the healer of all healers heal you. Let the Father of all fathers be your Abba. Let the provider of all providers manage your finances.  Let the Lord of all Lords, be your King.

He loved you enough to die for you.  YOU ARE WORTHY......

• For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.     
  PS 139:13-16
• But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.......For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  Eph 2:4-6, 10
• Look at the birds in the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Mat 6:26
• But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rom 5:8
• For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  Jhn 3:16
• I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  Gal 2:20
• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!  2 Cor 5:17

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