Everything We Truly Want We Already Have!

If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

For those who are — by grace through faith — in Christ, everything we truly want . . . everything our hearts beat for . . . everything we are so desperately seeking . . . we already have because of Jesus.

We are all born needy. The human heart deeply needs and longs for so many things, and the things that matter most in life are given to us by the One who took our stripes and bore our guilt and shame on the cross.  

• The attention we long for . . . we already have in Christ
• The affection we long for . . . we already have in Christ
• The acceptance we long for . . . we already have in Christ
• The attachment we long for . . . we already have in Christ
• The acknowledgment we long for . . . we already have in Christ
• The approval we long for . . . we already have in Christ

Jesus lost all of that and so much more when He suffered the Father’s cosmic abandonment and experienced righteous rejection while He hung on the cross on behalf of sinners like you and me. But three days later, God the Father placed His sovereign stamp of approval on God the Son by raising Him from the grave. And now, seated at the right hand of the Father in glory, Jesus has all the affection, acceptance, and approval of His Father . . . and so much more; “Power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise” are His forever and ever (Revelation 5:12-13).

And because of our relationship to Him, we have it too — all the attention, affection, acceptance, attachment, acknowledgment, and approval we could ever possibly want! God has “raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6). He wants us to know “His incomparably great power for us who believe” (Ephesians 1:19) and for us to be “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19).

What amazing grace and indescribable gifts have been bestowed on all those who have trusted in Jesus! Remember, every heartbreak of longing that comes from feeling unaccepted, unwelcome, unwanted, unincluded, uninvited, and unloved is fulfilled — completely and eternally — in Jesus Christ, and nothing can ever change that.

This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!