What would you need to do to make God love you? What area of your life would you need to clean up so that God could bless you? How could you make yourself better so that God would choose you for something good?

These were questions that used to rule my days. I was always trying to earn my way into God’s good grace. Checking all the boxes was exhausting. I could do it for a little bit of time, but eventually I would fall short again and struggle. And when I struggled, I assumed God was disappointed in me again. And then, I would hide.

Are you afraid God is disappointed in you? Have you been hiding in your struggle?

My sister, God is not disappointed in your struggle. He’s disappointed that you would think your performance is what he’s looking for. Let’s get this straight. God is GOD. He’s like the hardest person in the world to buy for, because he already has everything. He’s hard to impress because he can already do everything. He’s hard to entertain because he already knows everything. And yet, Zephaniah 3:17 tells us God rejoices over us and delights in us.

You, as you are, are exactly who God wants. You are who he has chosen. You are the one he rejoices over and delights in. And there’s only one thing he is asking you to do. One thing that would make him happy. One thing that he wants from you. And this one thing will make everything else right.

The one thing God wants from you is your faith. Just believe him. Believe he is loving and he is good. Believe he is involved in the details of your life. Believe in his promises over you. And if you will simply BELIEVE, everything else is made right.

It’s not your performance. It’s not your consistently checked boxes. It’s not your wisdom to know what to do, then your ability to make yourself do what you know to do. Nope, none of that. If you could do this on your own, then you would actually deserve your blessings. And if you deserve the blessings, they’re no longer blessings, they’re payments. And if you can earn it because you deserve it, you could also lose it because of your shortcomings.

And through it all, we’ve taken the gift out of the blessing God offers us. Girl, you didn’t earn this. You couldn’t possibly earn this. The blessings in your life are the result of a good God who takes specific delight in YOU. He owed you nothing, yet he gives you everything.

Romans 4 recounts the story of Abraham told in Genesis. Remember, Abraham was this old man with an old wife, and they were unable to have children. There was nothing they could do to earn children. It simply wasn’t possible. But, God comes to Abraham and tells him, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

What if God whispered a dream into your soul that made absolutely no sense? What if he gave you a peak at the works he planned to do simply because he delights in you, and what if those works were impossible? Would you dismiss them? Would you disqualify yourself? Would you try to hush that desire and opt for something more reasonable?

That’s exactly what we do! We disqualify ourselves because we believe it’s up to us to do it. Girl, this isn’t about you. This is about God. Abraham was receiving the promise of a God Plan, and when it’s a God Plan, only God can pull it off. You have 2 roles in a God Plan … believe it and get out of the way!

I have to wonder what God Plans we’ve gotten in the way of. What impossible dreams has God breathed into us, but we’ve dismissed them because we don’t know how to step into them. I know I have a few of those. And once again, today, God is just inviting me to come back and believe him enough to get out of the way.

That’s what’s happening right now for you too. God has plans, good plans for you, but it doesn’t look like it’s happening and you have no idea how to make it happen on your own, so you’ve given up. And let me tell you something … a girl who has given up is totally IN THE WAY. How do you get out of God’s way? Dare to believe him again.

Genesis 15: 6 says, “Abraham believed the Lord, and the Lord credited it to him as righteousness.”

Abraham didn’t create a plan, then start checking boxes for the plan. Abraham didn’t instantly clean up his life and impress God with his works. (No, in fact Abraham and Sarah’s attempts to earn a baby and fix the issues created massive problems later. But, God can overcome the problems we cause and the messes we make. He doesn’t cancel his plan because we get it wrong a few times.)

Abraham heard God whisper his promise of offspring as many as the stars, and while he was still way too old to have children and married to an old woman who had never been able to have children, he got out of the way and simply believed. And when he believed, it was credited to him as righteousness.

Righteousness means to be made right. To be counted as good enough. To qualify. Abraham’s faith qualified him when everything else said he was out.

Abraham believed what he could not see. He believed what he could not do. And God made everything else right. And when Abraham, in faith, entered into what God was doing for him, that was the turning point.

When you decide in faith to step into what God alone is doing for you, you will have your turning point! This is when doors open. This is when tides change. This is when walls fall. This is when mountains move. This is when seas part. This is when chains break. It’s all dependent on you BELIEVING, then God makes you right for his plan.

Now, let’s bring it home. Let’s see what Paul says about Abraham hundreds of years later in Romans 4. Verses 17-24 in the Message translation:

“We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!” Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That’s why it is said, “Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.”

Look that scripture up today. Go ahead and google Romans 4: 17-24 MSG. Write it in the margins of your Bible. Underline those words. God makes something out of us when we are a nobody. God does miraculous things for us and through us when we dare to just trust God to do what only he can do.

When absolutely everything is hopeless, here’s what we do … we believe anyway. We don’t live our lives based on what we can make happen, we live our lives according to what God said HE would do.

Stop focusing on your limitations. Stop taking inventory of how late it is, how hard it is, and how unlikely it is. That’s you getting in the way.

My favorite line in this scripture is “Abraham didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he said.”

Let that be us! Let’s stop tiptoeing around the promises of God over our own lives. Stop poking at the dreams he has given us with skeptical questions. Let’s plunge right in and God will help us come up strong.

This is how we open up our lives to God’s Plan. We dare to believe that WITH GOD, ALL THINGS REALLY ARE POSSIBLE!

God isn’t choosing you because of what you bring to the table, he’s choosing you because within you is the faith to believe it, and then in faith get out of the way to let it happen!

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