If We Grasp Love Will Grasp Community

 Isaiah 64:8

But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

 This week God allowed me bake some cookies to show some ladies love. This moment for me was precious because it gave me lots of time to reflect. As I was molding the cookie it was a reminder to me how God holds me in His hand loving shaping me to becoming the me I am destined to be. The fact that He loves me for me really boggles me but I think no matter what part of our walk we are in we can't fathom how real God's love is for us!

Our life is a process just like there is a process to making the cookies. There are key ingredients that we need. We first have to be accepting and willing to soak in the love God has giving us just as the  dry ingredients soak in the egg, oil and butter. Once we are open we become one with God we build community. The same picture is with the body we blend together becoming one.

It's also important to know we are all different that each part has its purpose. I think that's another picture as well because when making cookies you eventually have to separate the dough. Even though they are separate on the sheet they are the same just placed in different positions of the pan. Yet  they are next to each other. That is the way the body should be! Eventually the cookies have to be baked and it gets hot. Yet, what a great picture that no matter what we may face we are never alone we go together.

We must keep this all in mind that were all being molded.  For if we grasp love will grasp community.

Your More Then A Plain Jane

 Romans 8:15

You haven’t received the spirit of slaves that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the spirit of God’s adopted children by which we call out, “Abba![a] Father

 God hasn't made us to feel like Plain Jane's but how often it easy to take our mind to feel this way. Can you relate?  No matter how long we have known Jesus the struggle can still feel real! This has been a thought on my mind since this morning at church as I reflected God bringing me into these team of twelve people  to be apart of Love Thy Neighborhood. I have to confess I have had to fight the battle because I have felt like the ," Oh she's just the Corbin girl" because a lot of my team members are from different parts of the states. 

Yet that isn't how God see it that way! So how selfish of me to feel this way because who & where I am from is to be proud of! I am very proud of where I am from please don't  get me wrong !  It's just been hard to not feel what I have felt or even the fact that I am the oldest on the team. I have had to tell myself  you are exactly where God placed for such a season because it is so easy to get caught in comparisons.

 We are not called to be slaves to fear. We're to live in the truth we are His children! That's been such a key part for me in my walk so it's why I share this one with you! God has reminded me I am to live like I am invited at the table because who I am is perfect! What about you do you need to lay in the Fathers hands?

Check out this video below! I believe no matter the age just like children we need to know who we are! I love this video because we all need affirmations of who we are!