Good Enough for Grace- {Guest Post by Tracy Teppler}

A Thanksgiving of PRAISE

Welcomes:

Tracy Teppler

writer of

My Daily Walk in His Grace

When Melissa asked me to guest post I was really excited. She asked

me to pray about it and then write about a time in my life that God

made an impact on me. So, firstly, thank you Melissa for this

opportunity and secondly, here goes:

Have you ever felt worthless? Have you ever felt not good enough? I

remember going through a stage where I was defending who I was.

Subconsciously you know you have value but when you're an emotional

wreck you don't have the confidence to see it. to stand up for

yourself when despite your feelings - you know you have value!

I remember chatting to a woman who for a brief period of time
befriended me (a Godcidence?) She told me how she was a certain
person when she got married and how over the years her husband had
tried to change her. Eventually, she became the 'person' he seemed to
want and then 4 children later, he dumped her. He did not like the
person he had created.

This so resonated with me at the time. I had 2 young children, my
marriage was strained, finances were tight and I just didn't feel good
enough, I was losing me, and I didn't like what I was turning into!

The turning point came one day when I was feeling very low. I felt
like a vapour, of no consequence and suddenly, for some reason the
penny dropped, the light bulb moment happened and it dawned on me -
God loves me JUST THE WAY I AM. Flaws and all, right here, right now,
failures, mistakes, every dark thing He loved me! I remember thinking
to myself , "Who are you not to accept me the way I am if God accepts
me?"

That day I started to realise that although I had much changing to do
- God wasn't telling me, "Tracy, change first, improve, be perfect -
and then I'll accept you." Uh-uh,
His word says He chose me from the beginning (Eph 1v4: Even before he
made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and
without fault in his eyes.)
He knew me in my mother's womb (Ps 139v13)
He loves me so much long before I desired to change for the better,
that He sent His only Son to die for me (John 3v16: For God loved the
world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him will not perish but have eternal life)
He loves me so much, the way I am, long before I knew that, He knew
how many hairs on my head (Luke 12v7: Indeed, the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many
sparrows)
He knows my deepest darkest thoughts and loves me despite them and His
thoughts of me are as numerous as the grains of sand (Psalm 139v18:
I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I
wake up, you are still with me!)

I learned that day to see myself through the eyes of Jesus and not
through my own eyes. I learnt my value is in Him. Because of Christ
I am valuable, worthy, and precious.


I want to encourage you, if you feel worthless, of no value, go seek
out in the word How God sees you. Read it out aloud because faith
comes from hearing. Your opinion of yourself will most certainly
change.

God bless
Tracy

More About Tracy:

I stole this from her blog and I just LOVE her heart so I had to share it!

My goal is to be encouraging and positive. I want to journal what I feel God wants me to write. I will write my blog not desiring responses, but really grateful and encouraged to receive them. My blog is not about my day to day life, unless its to make a point in a message.  If I can make someone smile, thats good too! As much as I enjoy blogging, my family must'nt lose out because I'm glued to the computer. Most importantly, if I can point anyone to God and His word, I would have achieved my goal

Isaiah 50 v 4(a):  The Lord God has given me the tongue of a disciple and one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary.  

This scripture is my goal for my blog!