Jeremiah’s Blog

“Then God said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over  the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, over all the creatures that move along the ground. So he created man in his own image. In the image of God he created them male and female both in the image of God.” Genesis 1:26-27

In the heart of being real I have to tell you that the beginning of this week was pretty rough for me. I felt all the emotion of the valley; anger, sadness, depression, loneliness, failure, etc., and they were all intensified into two days. I had tremendous hopes for reaching the city through our current series, especially after all the publicity, and the fact that we had so few visitors drove me into despair. I felt I had failed God, I had failed the people of ECC, and I felt like there was no hope. It was a bad two days!

Maybe you have had a time like this, maybe you’re going through something like this right now.I want to encourage you as I have been encouraged. I was talking to my mentor and he said something I think I knew, but did not believe, and when he said it, it was with conviction and passion. He said “You can look at this and say it failed, but you are not a failure!” WOW! I needed that, I am not a failure, and maybe in some respects it did fail, but I am not a failure. I then had a choice; embrace that truth.or live in a lie. I went for the truth.

Right after I had this encouragement I went to work on this week’s teaching and God gave me Genesis 1:26-27. I bear the image of God! I am an image bearer of the creator of the universe. I am made with a purpose, I am uniquely and wonderfully made, a special creation of God. God did not create me and say, “Man I messed up with that one” Instead he cares about me so much that He says that he knows the number of hairs on my head, and that each one literally has a number. Today if you are feeling like you can’t go on, feeling like the world is pressing in, or maybe you just feel like a failure, remember that you are a image bearer of God, and He cares for you.

Maybe we did not reach the masses, but one women that was there this past week wants to sit down and talk about becoming a Christ-follower, and there is no failure in that! She is a unique creation of God that matters so much that he would have us do all this, just for her, and I believe that with all of my heart.

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