{"id":27047,"date":"2015-08-04T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T04:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27047"},"modified":"2015-08-03T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T23:17:06","slug":"to-be-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/04\/to-be-known\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Known"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

O Lord, You have examined my heart and know everything about me, <\/span>
\nYou know when I sit down or stand up. <\/span>
\nYou know my thoughts even when I’m far away. <\/span>
\nYou see me when I travel and when I rest at home. <\/span>
\nYou know everything I do.<\/span>
\nPsalms 139:1-3<\/span><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n

These three verses focus on one of the many aspects of God that I truly love and adore\u2014He knows<\/strong> me<\/span><\/em>. \u00a0Coming from a place in my life where I felt misunderstood, weird, different, and alone into a relationship with my Lord Who knows everything<\/em> <\/span>about me has been amazing. \u00a0Some people have things about themselves that they want to hide or hope others never find out…and they behave the same with God. \u00a0I’ve never been that way. \u00a0God knows everything<\/em><\/span> about me, whether I tell Him or not. \u00a0And He knows everything<\/em><\/span> about me whether I want Him to know or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be known<\/em><\/span>\u201d…to some this is a great fear but to me it is a great freedom. Nothing I do, say, or think as well as nothing I have thought, said, or done, \u00a0can change the fact that God loves me.<\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  • He loves me just the way I am.<\/li>\n
  • He doesn’t separate the good from the bad.<\/li>\n
  • He doesn’t only love me when I behave.<\/li>\n
  • He doesn’t only love part of me.<\/li>\n
  • He loves all of me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    God can love all of me because He made me. \u00a0He knows<\/strong> me<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0And when I give Him my life and work with Him, He can take the bad things in me and transform them to good things. \u00a0Being bad does not hinder God’s ability to love me one bit. \u00a0It is impossible. \u00a0He loves me because He chooses to and I have nothing to do with that. \u00a0NOTHING!<\/p>\n

    How awesome\u2014that we serve a God who knows our everything and still calls us to be in a relationship with Him! \u00a0You don’t have to be perfect. \u00a0You don’t have to \u2018get your life together\u2019. \u00a0You don’t have to stop a certain behavior or learn a new trick in order for God to love you. \u00a0He just loves you. \u00a0In a world where a lot of things are conditional, God’s unconditional love can be unfathomable to some.<\/p>\n

    What does God gain from loving us? \u00a0Think about it…
    \nWhat could the Creator of the world possibly gain
    \nfrom loving you and I in our imperfection?
    \nI say—ask Him<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    \u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n

    Lord, thank You for loving me unconditionally. \u00a0Thank You for seeing me for who I am here and now. \u00a0Thank You for caring enough about me to take the time to help me grow into a better me. \u00a0Help me to see that I have to do nothing to earn this love. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    O Lord, You have examined my heart and know everything about me, You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. Psalms 139:1-3 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3146,3367,9231,1725,9230,3174,9232],"class_list":["post-27047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-god-knows-us","tag-god-loves-you","tag-psalm-1391-3","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-to-be-known-girlfriends-coffee-hour","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-72f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27071,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27047\/revisions\/27071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}