Remembering How God Sees Me

This morning I heard a short testimony from Allison Allen on the Today show. Apparently she was an actress although I have not heard of her before.

I was about to tune out as this pretty woman who looked my age or younger, but was actually older than me. She looked too "Together". Then she began to pour her heart out. Despite her being in the spot light she often believed she was rejected or reject-able.

Wow me too!...without the spotlight that is.

God told her she was accepted in the beloved. She went on to say found his power is uniquely on her life when she stepped out in weakness.....Well there is some hope for me! I am about to do another Aussie food demo talk to my son's 4th grade class. It is actually an anti-bully message hidden in Australian words and food. It all stemmed out of my little girl getting picked on for eating spinach or spinach wraps. It went well talking to my daughters 2nd grade class last week but boy was I nervous! I am also going to do a talk for the 10th grade history class. Teenagers are one of my most favorite age groups, yet my utmost scarryest. My worst year of rejection was my first year in high school.

Allison Allen has written a book called "SHINE - Coming into the role you were made for."

She mentioned some incredibly powerful verses that she uses to cement her identity in Christ and to combat her fears of rejection. These verses will compliment my own list of "rejection repellent verses".
She boldly proclaimed a list of biblical truths collected from verses that are so grounding for my self worth and root my identity deep in The who the Lord really sees me as, and helps me to ignore and by-pass what others may or may not think of me. Especially when I am faced with seeing a family member this weekend who has rejected me many times in the past.

*"We are the apple of His eye, more than an overcomer, more than a conqueror, we are accepted in the beloved"
I added chosen and precious, from my fav verse, 1 Peter 2:4 "Rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God."

I decided to look up the full verses she mentioned. I have been so blessed my each one. I hope you are blessed too and can take a stronger hold of who God see you as, for it is He who really matters.

New International Version
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye-- (Zech 2:8)

Romans 8:31-39New International Version (NIV) More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us,who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns?No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ephesians 1:6 (King James 2000 Bible)

"To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved."