We are told throughout the pages of Scripture that in Christ we are immeasurably loved, totally forgiven, fully accepted, complete, and blessed.
This is also a paraphrase from Robert McGee, who unpacks these promises in his book, The Search for Significance.[1] Following are a few Scriptures that I have assembled on each truth.
We Are Loved:
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:16–19, emphasis added)
We Are Forgiven:
There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1 NIV)
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. (Hebrews 8:12 NIV)
We Are Accepted:
Since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. (Romans 5:1 NLT)
God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. (Ephesians 1:4 NLT)
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? (Romans 8:31 NLT)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned. (John 3:16–18 NIV)
We Are Complete:
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. (2 Peter 1:3 NIV)
So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. (Colossians 2:10 NLT)
We Are Restored by God:
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3 NHEB)
We Are Blessed with Every Spiritual Blessing:
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3 NIV; there is much in Ephesians 1 and Scripture about our spiritual blessings in Christ.)
Used with permission from Conspiracy of Grace by Dale Fiegland with Robbi Cary. (This is Appendix E in the book and referenced in Chapter 19: “What’s Low Worth Got to Do with It?”)
[1] Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth through God’s Eyes (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003). McGee’s website is OfficialMcGeePublishing.com. The quote above is offered for free on a “Truth Card” under the Resource tab.
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