Approved

Greetings!

How about I was at the store today, and I used one of those express lanes that you check your own groceries out, and I finished my purchase, paid for my items with my card and proceeded to my car. When I got to my car, one of the employees came out and told me that I hadn't paid for my items. I told her that the machine had said approved, but she said it still showed I owed money. I went back in and sure enough, it said approved, but there wasn't enough money on my card, so it bounced back. Who knew? I always thought that if there was no money, it would say so. I guess not.....sigh. I added the needed cash, paid again for real this time and left.

All of this made me think about how we are always "approved" with God. We can never run low with Him. Our bank is always full. We sometimes have to deal with a lot in our day to day, and our spirits can take a beating from trying so hard to do what is right. When we really don't have to do that. When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, God justifies us. That means that our relationship with Jesus makes us right with God. We don't ever have to worry about doing anything. It is already done. God loves us...just as we are warts and all.

We have to stop worrying about the things we can do nothing about...especially when it comes to other people. We sometimes worry so much about what others think of us that most of the time their opinion of us means more than God's opinion of us and nothinng should be that extreme. He has the only opinion that counts, right?

So, whenever that little credit card readers says approved...first make sure your transaction actually went through...lol...and then give God a little thank you.

Unitl next time...

Be blessed