Knowing Your Frame

Good Morning My Beloved Ones,

     I pray that you are walking hand in hand with Jesus, leaning on His breast and learning at His feet.

 

 

 

     Today I want to talk to you about "Knowing your Frame".  Psalm 103:14 says that the Lord knows our frame and remembers that we are dust.  I thank God for that!  We would do well to remember the same thing.

 

     Did you know that God does not expect you to be perfect?  He is not crushed or disappointed in you when you fail.  He expects it because He knows our frame.  He remembers that we are but dust and can do nothing in and of ourselves.

 

     Have you ever been told you are too hard on yourself?  I have.  Some of us hear that a lot, and it's true.  When we feel we should have said or done differently, we've fallen short, don't measure up, blew it, made a mistake or a wrong choice, we beat ourselves up.  We convince ourselves that we are failures, stupid, even worthless.  How that breaks God's heart!  We sure expect a lot from dust, don't we?  But God knows our frame.  He remembers and His grace is sufficient for us.

 

     I would encourage you to read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32.  This is a story of Father God's love relationship with His children.  The son in the story didn't just mess up.  He willfully sinned.  He made a choice.  When he came to his senses, he returned to the Father.  But here's the best part of the whole story:  When the father saw the son afar off, he ran to him and hugged him and kissed his neck.  He did not chew him out, tell him how disappointed he was or treat him as an outcast.  He just loved on him. 

 

     We don't serve a harsh God, waiting to punish us for every infraction, sin or short-coming.  To the woman caught in adultery (one of the big ten no-no's), Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you- go and sin no more."

 

     My point is this my friends:  If the very God of the Universe, the Great I AM won't condemn or berate us, then who are we to do it?  Now we mustn't go to the other extreme either.  We can't use our frame as an excuse not to try or not to be what we are capable of being.  It's all about God's grace.  He knows our frame and in our weakness, He is strong.  Know your frame, my friends, and trust in His grace.  Say to yourselves, "Neither do I condemn you - go and sin no more."

 

Love in Christ, Raelynn