Lord, what were You thinking when You made me?

Reading #1 — You Are Mine

“I have loved you with an everlasting love.” (Jeremiah 31:3)

I loved you before you did anything right. You didn’t earn it, and you can’t lose it by failing. (Romans 5:8)

I knit you together myself. You were not a mistake. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:13–14)

I called you by name. You are mine. (Isaiah 43:1)

You are my son, not a servant working for approval. (Galatians 4:7)

I know all of you, and nothing in you can separate you from my love. (Romans 8:38–39)

There is no condemnation for you. (Romans 8:1)

I rejoice over you with gladness. I quiet you with my love. (Zephaniah 3:17)

Your worth doesn’t rise and fall with how you do today. I settled it. (Ephesians 1:4–6)

Reading #2 — What I See in You

My Spirit lives in you. (1 Corinthians 3:16)

I have poured my love into your heart. (Romans 5:5)

When you ask, I hear you. Keep asking, seeking, knocking. (Matthew 7:7)

I am renewing your mind. Bring me your thoughts. (Romans 12:2)

Every good thing you have came from me. (James 1:17)

I am making you into something beautiful, and I’m not finished. “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.” (Philippians 1:6)

The compassion you give away is mine, flowing through you. (2 Corinthians 1:3–4)

Your life tells the story of my grace. (2 Corinthians 3:2–3)

Reading #3 — Why I Made You

You are my workmanship. I prepared good works for you before you were born. Walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

I made you to love people, all kinds of people, the way I have loved you. (John 13:34)

You were never meant to be self-sufficient. Let others carry some of the weight. (Galatians 6:2)

Be honest. You don’t have to hide anymore. (Ephesians 4:25)

Your mistakes don’t undo you. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

The work I’m doing in you is slow, and I am patient with it. You can be too. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

You are on the road home, and I am walking it with you. (Luke 24:13–15)

Reading #4 — I Provide

Your heavenly Father knows what you need. (Matthew 6:32)

What you have is gift. Hold it loosely. (Job 1:21)

I am working all things together for good. (Romans 8:28)

“It is finished.” What matters most is already done. (John 19:30)

Reading #5 — Bring Me Your Decisions

Bring me your choices. Don’t lean on your own understanding alone. (Proverbs 3:5–6)

When you go the wrong way, I’ll meet you there. You’ll hear a word behind you: “This is the way, walk in it.” (Isaiah 30:21)

You don’t need to see how it turns out. I can. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5)

Reading #6 — The People I Send You

Everyone who walks into your shop is someone I love. (Matthew 25:40)

Work for them as if you were working for me. (Colossians 3:23–24)

Take their praise with thanks, and their correction as a gift. (Proverbs 12:1)

Be fair with them. I delight in an honest scale. (Proverbs 11:1)

Love them first. Then the truth you tell them will have somewhere to land. (Ephesians 4:15)

Reading #7 — Receive

Everything good comes from me. (James 1:17)

I am good, even when you don’t understand what I’m doing. (Nahum 1:7; Isaiah 55:8–9)

Grace is better than being owed. Stop keeping score. (Matthew 20:1–16)

I open my hand to you first. (Psalm 145:16) Open yours. Unclench them so you can receive what I’m giving, and loosen them so you don’t grip it once it’s yours. What do you have that you did not receive? (1 Corinthians 4:7)

My love is wider, longer, higher, and deeper than you can measure. It surpasses knowledge. (Ephesians 3:18–19)

You are deeply loved. Receive it, today, again. My mercies are new every morning. (Lamentations 3:22–23)

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Thank You. I receive it.