{"id":439,"date":"2018-10-08T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/heres-what-i-know-and-i-am-amazed\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:15:25","slug":"heres-what-i-know-and-i-am-amazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What I Know and I Am Amazed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am a \u201cknower\u201d and I know a lot. I know I\u2019m not the sharpest tool in the toolbox. I know I\u2019m not \u201cbeauty queen\u201d material. There is no need for me to apply for a job as a neuroscientist, a heart surgeon, or an attorney \u2013 I just haven\u2019t applied myself to the education and knowledge required. I know that this body that my spirit lives in, is not as toned, tight, and lean as it once was in my twenties. I know that when I look in the mirror I don\u2019t see that young woman that once looked back at me. <\/p>\n

AND, more importantly than anything I lack, here\u2019s what I know. Without a shadow of a doubt, I know about God\u2019s love for me. Don’t try to convince me otherwise. I know that God is NOT dead. I’ve seen way too much evidence otherwise. I’ve experienced way too many of God’s blessings, and I know they didn’t come to me by happenstance or coincidence.<\/p>\n

I know there are times that it just had to be God that did THAT for me, or gave me that, or showed me that and that’s when I looked up to heaven and said, \u201cI know that was YOU, God, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d I know God sees me right where I am right in this minute in this day. I know His love for me is vast and beyond what I can imagine. I’ve been loved so much that it’s the story of my life. <\/p>\n

And all this that I know about me and my story, I want it to be the story of your life as well. I want it to change everything, including how you look at God, yourself, and other people. I want you to live in confidence that when God looks at you, He sees beauty. He sees value. He sees hope. He sees kindness, strength, love, compassion. He sees a precious treasure beyond compare. <\/p>\n

When God looks at you and me, He doesn\u2019t evaluate us based on our family history, or how cute and spunky we are, or how popular we are. He doesn\u2019t consider our education, our resume OR our bank balance. What might impress others, doesn\u2019t impress God. None of that changes how He values us. In fact, whether we behave well, or not, His love for us is unconditional. He doesn\u2019t love us because we\u2019re wealthy or smart or good. He loves us because we\u2019re HIS! \u201cSee what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called Children of God\u201d 1 John 3:1 God doesn\u2019t compare us to others. We are a unique work of His creation. And we are His definition of BEAUTIFUL. Isn\u2019t it time we see ourselves as God sees us?<\/p>\n

When you’re hiding or when you feel beaten down, and you can’t see anything clearly, He’s still hard at work, handcrafting all the details for your beautiful future. He sees you. He loves you. We are SO loved by ALMIGHTY God — doesn’t that AMAZE you? It sure amazes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a \u201cknower\u201d and I know a lot. I know I\u2019m not the sharpest tool in the toolbox. I know I\u2019m not \u201cbeauty queen\u201d material. There is no need for me to apply for a job as a neuroscientist, a heart surgeon, or an attorney \u2013 I just haven\u2019t applied myself to the education…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[808,1319,1320,1321,1322,949,1323,1324,1325,1326,1327,1328],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-john-31","tag-attorney","tag-beauty-queen","tag-children-of-god","tag-god-loves-me","tag-god-loves-you","tag-god-sees-me","tag-god-sees-you","tag-great-love-the-father-lavished","tag-heart-surgeon","tag-neuroscientist","tag-tool-in-the-toolbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}