God loves you, a point this is all !

"When someone is weak, I also feel weak, and when someone commits sins, it hurts me too, and if I have to brag, I will boast of being weak." 2 Corinthians 11:29

When your body releases you, everything becomes complicated ! In 1999, I started taking cortisone three times a day, along with several other medications. I had just been told that I had a rather rare autoimmune disease.

God is my Father, he loves me with unconditional love, he has placed his joy in me.

I was very affected. I easily got mad at my wife and children. Sometimes I suddenly became angry, for no apparent reason. I made my family and my team suffer.

I had the impression of living a double life: on the one hand I behaved like a model pastor, and on the other, I was a spouse, a father and an irascible boss.

Something was wrong with me, something in the chemistry of my body but also in the chemistry of my soul. I realized it only years later: in fact, I needed inner healing. Will Bowen said : "Hurt people hurt people", which translates as "injured people hurt people".

Are you hurt ? Do you hurt people ?

I have hurt many people in my life, especially during the first years of my ministry: in churches, in Top Chrétien, in other organizations for which I have worked. I am deeply sorry. I repented and asked for forgiveness those I had offended every time I had the opportunity.

In his grace, God has placed people on my path to help me, and he has used one of them to make a radical change in my life. One day, in the Czech Republic, I met Dave Patty, head of the "Josiah Venture" ministry. For three days, in the presence of God, we began to search for the deep reasons that motivated my actions and my reactions.

We discovered that many things had happened in my childhood that had programmed me to want to prove to others, to my parents and even to God that I was the best ! I always wanted to be approved and valued, which had developed within me a spirit of insecurity very strong, which I compensated by a spirit of competition. I was able to abandon all this at the foot of the cross. Jesus freed me. From that moment, my relationship with God changed radically, It was extraordinary.

All of a sudden, I felt safe, a security that did not come from my actions, but from my position in Christ : God is my Father, he loves me with unconditional love, he has placed his joy in me. I am her child. It has a perfect plan for my life.

Action for Today

What about you ? Do you suffer certain traits of your character ? Is there something in your past that God should heal ? Give Jesus the deepest of your being. Let him show you how he sees you. You will be surprised to see that the way he looks at you is very different from the way you look at yourself. He loves you, that's all !

Eric Célérier

Source (The Thought of the Day)