"The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
This scripture is about Mary, the mother of Christ. But if we sincerely look at our lives, the angels could be saying the same thing about us. We are a highly favored people. God tells us in His word that He will never leave us or foresake us that our hope is secure in Him. Talk about favor. We are reminded again and again not to worry, not to be anxious in ANYTHING and why, because we ARE highly favored by the King of Kings, our Heavenly Father. We stumble so often, we fail, we get a little off track and well let's face it, sometimes we get a lot off track but what does our Daddy do... He comes running to us, arms open wide because we are His beloved favored children.
There have been many times in my life where I thought, now you've done it Heather, you reall have messed up now and God just won't forgive this mistake. I begin praying and immediately the enemy starts with his taunts and says, nope, this sin is just too big to be forgiven. But what does the word tell us, our sins are as far as the east is from the west. If that doesn't give us cause for celebration I don't know what does.
I can fail over and over and you can stumble and fall, but all we have to do is come back to our God with a repentent heart and because of His favor, we are forgiven and set free from the bondages of sin. How incredible is that? How reassuring and comforting to know that this world may turn against us, our loved ones here may give up on us and say hurtful things because we fail, but our God who never has failed simply says, what sin my favorite child, my beloved. Have you ever really thought about it? YOU are the most precious being in God's eyes, you matter.
Have you forgotten that you already have found favor through the bloodshed of Christ? Are you still trying to "make things right" before fully committing your life to Him, trying to be "perfect" to the only perfect one? YOU are highly favored. Embrace that.
Blessings,
Heather
