Sometimes, I think I’m getting close to having it all figured out and being where I want to be in life. Then I wake up and think, “Wow, that was a good dream.” The reality is that I feel like there’s so much that I’m supposed to know that everyone else knows that I don’t. Like some sort of secret handshake or password. Or one of those pages with the dots on them where you’re supposed to see Jesus and I never do. I just see dots.

I feel like Tom Hanks’ character in the movie Big, just a 10-year old in a 30-something year old body. I’m pretty sure that soon everyone else will figure that out and send me back to fourth grade or something. Which might be a good thing, because I could use a refresher on grammar and punctuation and all that.

I’m beginning to figure out it really isn’t what you know, it’s who you know. Or Who you know. Jesus knows everything. He knows everything I will ever face and will get me through the best, the worst and the rest of it. He also knows me fully and completely and has chosen not to bail on me, but to set His affections on me and love me with a love that’s crazy and wild and passionate.

I know that I am the Beloved and nothing I ever do or don’t do will ever change that. I know that I have infinite worth because Jesus told me so when He spent His precious blood to buy me for the Kingdom.

I know you are Beloved and of infinite worth to Jesus. I know that you are never alone in anything you face. If you’ve trusted Jesus for your salvation, He’s on your side. He’s in you and with you and for you. You don’t have to know everything. You just have to know the One who knows everything. Then you’ll be fine.

So be proud of the face that you are weak, because then He is strongest. Be glad that you are broken, because that’s where true wholeness comes from. Rejoice, because God is working on the canvas of Your life to create something amazing. If He created the universe in 6 days, imagine the work of art He’s been creating in you all this time. It will be a masterpiece that will take your breath away and cause the world to stop and stare and be in awe of a God Who could make something as beautiful as the finished you.

Amen and amen!