"I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
- Martin Luther

Taken from here.

I came across a fantastic quote in my college lecture notes today. It is from a J. I. Packer classic called Knowing God, and it goes :

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way that I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Funkydoodles! (that's my new way of saying that something is cool)

You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
- Indescribable by Chris Tomlin

We sang this song in church yesterday and it got me thinking.

Many of us are very, very afraid to show other people who we really are, because we're afraid that if they really knew who we were, they wouldn't like us anymore.

So we put on a facade. A "I've got it all together" facade. And we refuse to let people help us.

It provides me immense comfort and overflowing thankfulness to be reminded again that God sees all that we are - even beyond what we know about ourselves, and yet He loves us the same.

Another song we sang at the evening service reinforced this reminder of God's amazing love :

Your grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in Your hands
- Majesty by Deliriou5?

To know that God loves me just as I am, in all my brokenness and my imperfections, that's really just... wow.

Thanks, God.