Affirmation, Part 2

Jeremiah 31:3, "Long ago the Lord said to Israel, I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself" (NLT). You can find affirmation in knowing that God chose to create you in his image and longs to have a relationship with you. It is such a blessing to understand that God desires to have a personal relationship with humanity. The God of all creation chooses to draw near to us and to release His love in our lives. The enemy seeks to remove that recognition from our lives yet God increasingly releases His love on us daily. We must decide to allow the Lord to release His love in our lives and we must choose to respond to the love that God places in us and over us. Just this week I have been able to recognize once more the greatness of God's love and the interest that He has in our daily walk. God draws us to Himself, even to the point of sacrificing His own Son to die for us so that our sins could be forgiven and we could be adopted into the family of God. Each of us need to daily walk in the strength of God's love and allow His affirmation to encourage us. The spirit of the world seeks to put us down and cause us to lose our self esteem but God wants us to recognize our importance to Him through the love that He shares with us. Make a choice today to walk in the affirmation of God's love and refuse the spirit of the enemy who seeks to make you doubt your self-worth.