Freedom in Christ!!

The Gospel is amazing!! It is liberating! And those are to things that I often forget that God has chosen me apart from anything that I have done, apart of my social status, apart from my family. God chose me because of his sovereign choice and he sent his Son to the cross for my sins not because I deserved it but because of His loving plan for me as his daughter. Nothing that I do can take me away from my Heavenly Father because he paid the price for my wandering heart with Jesus blood. So with that I have been praying for liberation from my idols and the bondage of past hurt especially dealing with past sexual abuse. God has blessed me with liberation from my idols and has healed the area of past sexual abuse I am going to continue to work through the hurt and the pain but also resting in the fact that God has given me the gifts necessary to get through this hurt and that my identity is not in my pain and that I am still in Christ even though I've been victimized.

My Father is also showing me that he alone is infinitely bigger than my pains,hurts and past and that has been so freeing. I'm glad that the God we serve wants to use all of our stories and use them to bring glory to himself. He alone is worthy of the glory for our lives because he created us for his glory alone! That makes me so glad that in whatever I am doing I can bring him glory.

Hope you are well and thanks for reading

Angel

Hello from the West Coast

So it has been a while since I last posted I'm not on Facebook so I thought that I should update ya'll on what's going on. I've been going through a lot but its been hard. If you didn't know my step dad passed away in November and that has been really hard for me I have missed him a lot. Its hard for me as I walk through things in my past I'm in counseling and its been good but I did not necessarily want to work through but it was not forced I don't think. I want to be authentic in all that I am doing and what better place to do it then in counseling. I started a new semester a while ago and I am on academic probation which is fine a lot of people give me this like sad look when I say that I am on probation but for me it has been a good thing helping stay focused I sometimes lose track of what is important but God has been good.
I'm working and I am really thankful that I have a job but the owner of the place I work at is really moody:) Yes I know I go to moody and I have a moody in the emotional sense that I work for. It can sometimes be annoying. In this job situation I am really learning to find my identity in Christ and not in my job which is what I have done in the pass. I am lerning to rest in the saving work of Christ and not find my identity in my performance which has been an idol of my heart for a long time and man do some things die hard.
Not a long post I am still working through things in my heart and I want to figure out what is appropriate to talk about and share with ya'll as I work through things and feel more ok with what has happen I'll share. Love you all and thank you for reading