This is just a quick post, but so important for all of us. Two weeks ago God woke me in the morning with the words "You are worth fighting for!" immediately in my mind and heart. So true, not just for me as a woman in terms of relationships, but for all of us as the chosen and won by Jesus. God fought for us with the greatest,most powerful weapon in His arsenal: His love for us incarnate in Jesus!
Those words were on my lips when a friend called not two minutes later - literally just after I turned my cell pone on -to cry out to me with a desperate need that had her ready to take her life. Thank you, Jesus, that you made the connection between us and gave me resources to help! Yes, when we call to Him, He will answer! And we,set free, are his answer to another's cry for help to know they matter to God.
Isaiah 62:4-5 tells us: No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah (My delight is in her) and your land Beulah (chosen, married); for the LORD will take delight in you . .. as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
To say I am worth fighting for would sound arrogant except for this truth from God's own mouth! He backed up this word with his own blood, Y'shua, Jesus!
Knowing my value, I can give value extravagantly even to those whose actions toward me don't put them in the "deserve it" category. Because I am fought for and won, I can fight for the value and validation of others. In terms of marriage, this is what gives a wife the power to love with unquenchable fire.The way to the depths of a woman's heart is not through gifts and dinners, but through valuing and honoring her as someone worth winning and protecting. Men,this gives you a woman whose heart will never fail to support, encourage,and fight for you as the warrior heart in her rises.
It amazes me how God fashioned us for each other - yet it's only out of knowing how GOD values us that we are truly set free to be what He means us to be to and for each other. I embrace this truth as my identity, an identity no one's actions or words or attitude toward me can take away. How that sets other people free from the requirement to be my validation!
We give each other a priceless gift when we take our identity from God.Not arrogance,but bought and set free receiving!
My ". . .BUT . . . " to move: Other people have failed me, cut me down, and rejected me when they placed their demands on me to be their source of value. I've done the same thing to others, BUT GOD you tell me I am worth fighting for, and because I embrace your truth, I am set free to _____________________________________________________
