Approved, Accepted, Loved: The Freedom in Following Jesus 🙌✝️
To know Jesus is to know:
🏆 You don't have to prove yourself, you have already been approved.
👑 You don't have to fight to be recognized, you have already been acknowledged.
🤗 You don't have to work for acceptance, you have already been accepted.
❤️ You do not have to perform to be loved, you are already loved.
🏅 You do not have to fight for victory, instead you can live in and fight from victory, because your battle has already been won!
🌟 Your worth is not found in the number of followers you have, but in the One you follow. And while your followers may unfollow, the One you follow not only follows back, He followed you before you started following Him and will never stop following (leading and loving) you!
🔥 You are not an influencer, you follow the Influencer. Anyone who does decide to follow you is influenced not by you, but by the One you are influenced by.
Could you imagine living a life where you did not have to prove, fight for acceptance, earn love, fight to win, impress followers to keep them? While you couldn't, God not only imagined a life like that for you, He created it!
📖 Scripture Drops:
"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." - Exodus 14:14
"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." - John 1:12
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." - Ephesians 2:10
"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." - John 3:16
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - John 16:33