A Truth Letter

This week for team time I felt like the Lord wanted us to write ourselves Truth Letters, because I think we have all been struggling with lies from the enemy lately, and it is powerful to speak the truth over ourselves. This is what I wrote, and wrote it as if the Lord were speaking to me:

Jules,

I want you to know first of all—there is nothing in my heart scolding you. I am rooting you onward. I haven’t called you to something easy—that’s why I told you that you have to be strong and courageous. Remember when I told Joshua that? I didn’t tell him “above all, be strong and very courageous” because the road ahead of him was easy. Hell no. The way to Christ-likeness is never easy, but it is worth it. You’re struggling to pursue Me, but my patience with you is not wearing thin, so keep on keeping on. In the moments when you don’t feel me, remember anyway that I am there and that I won’t ever walk away from you.

Don’t get down on yourself. You look in the mirror and see someone who jacked it up again, but when I look at you I see you clothed in righteousness and purity. You are my beautiful bride and there is no spot on you. That’s how I see you. Learn to see things from my perspective and stop wanting to beat yourself up. Talking down to yourself will only alienate you further. Accept who you are in Me and be done with it.

I made you beautiful and lively, thoughtful and joyful for a purpose: to represent those same characteristics that are in Me to others. I know you feel confused and unsure of yourself—of who you are or why you are the way you are. Stop wondering—you don’t need to. Remember, I am on my throne and I’m in control, and I made you this way for my glory. So stop wondering if you’re doing things wrong or why people see you the way that they do; it’s not important. My thoughts of you are the only ones that matter—and there is nothing you could do that would change my opinion of you. It’s set in stone, sweet heart.

Just do what you know I have called you to. Remind yourself of it and walk in it. It seems like the harder path—but in reality it’s not, because it is the one that I have set up for your good. On the path that I have made for you, only goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.

You are beautiful. Your heart is beautiful. Keep coming after Me, and all these things will be added unto you.