Phil,
I will appreciate hearing more of your thoughts on this subject.  I 
will admit that there are those times when satan tries to convince me 
that I am God's biggest mistake.  that's when faith steps in and I 
need to conciousely remind myself of what you are getting to here.  I 
know that there is nothing I can do to make Him love me more and 
nothing I can do to make Him love me less, but the mind games that 
run through my head, at times, are incredible.
Kathy



At 03:09 PM 8/15/2006, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>The answer is a lot more simple than I can explain it.  As you likely
>noticed, it took me two years before I even believed it.  The bottom line,
>on the other hand, is to accept the simplicity of the statement, which is,
>You are the perfect will of God.  The Lord has revealed a great deal more
>about this statement to me over the years.  My life, growing up, and even
>over all the years of ministry, traveling and preaching revival meetings,
>serving as an assistant pastor a few times and as the head pastor twice,
>were basically things I did for God.  That's how I was taught.  I never
>realized the Christian life was how much God did for me so I did everything
>for Him.  Learning I was His perfect will, began to change my thinking and
>that is, I don't have to do anything to be right with God.  In fact, the
>more I allow Him to do in me, the closer we get.  I'll have some additional
>thoughts to this later which connect with the statement, You are the perfect
>will of God.  Right now Sandy says lunch is ready and I don't want to get
>any skinnier by missing a meal.
>
>Phil.