Oh, Yeah? Prove It!

As long as we carry an internal need to prove something:

• Capacity
• Capability
• Wisdom
• Discernment
• Accomplishment
• Rightness
• Worth

Even if it is a need to prove it only to ourselves, we are operating in the fleshly doubt and unbelief of:

1. Who God has said HE IS, and
2. Who God has said WE ARE.

We place ourselves in bondage, defining an outcome that we think will prove our “good-enoughness"; we set milestones to point to as justifications against our past missteps or people who have not believed in us.

We render ourselves unable to walk in the freedom of the steps God is directing. We complicate the simplicity of the joy of taking the journey completely resting in His delight and approval. We shut ourselves off from receiving  the love that He pours out.

We amplify, instead, the idea that we must earn, in some measure, our freedom, our joy, and His love.

To walk with faith – with fearless abandon to His direction – we must stop looking to prove ourselves.

We must receive His proof that He loves. That He directs. That He has set a path before us.

We must remind ourselves that whatever the outcome of our following His path, if we have listened, trusted, received, and obeyed, we are justified in Him.

Justification in Christ does not end at our salvation; at our rescue from the eternal consequences of our sin. It extends to every single step we take in relationship with Him.

HE says “Well done.”

HE silences the accuser.

HE PROVES GOOD ENOUGH.

Stop struggling to prove you are. He already is in you. Rest.