Because Jesus paid it all, we have nothing to prove. Because He was perfectly adequate, we can be peacefully inadequate. Because our righteousness comes only from Him we can rest. Because He saved us, we can lay down our shame. The world will crush us if that is what we are chasing. Jesus will carry us if we cast our cares upon Him.
Young and beautiful, she struggled through the door of a conference room I was sitting in yesterday; walking with great effort and the assistance of a cane. I knew she had a story. We all do. I could not help but wonder what her’s was. “Does this story have a happy ending,” she asked? “I just have to know before we get started.”
What a picture she represented to me. I, a daughter of the King, struggle and limp through life often needing assistance to be steadied. All along asking my Father, does my story and that story and those stories, do they have happy endings? And I imagine my loving God smiling as he says to me, all my stories have happy endings, my child. You may relax and enjoy the journey. Rest in this truth today friends. If you know Jesus as your Savior, your story has a happy ending, too. If it is not happy, it is not the ending.