The Power of Divine Affirmation, Part 2

Hunting for Glory in All the Wrong Places

This is part two of the second chapter of a book in progress entitled The Good Enough for God Life. You can read chapter one HERE, and the part one of the chapter HERE.

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When we are lifted up by divine affirmation and live in the wonder of God’s great love, we become ruined to the opinion of others. We are no longer prisoners to parents' judgments, our children’s choices, our bosses’ evaluations, or even our spouse’s affection. “My salvation and my honor depend on God” (Psalm 62:7). We have a different well to draw from when all other wells of affirmation have gone empty—the perpetually full and eternal affirmation of our heavenly Father, guaranteed to flow our way by no less a guarantee than the death and resurrection of our Savior Jesus.

Jesus even says that when we rightly live by divine affirmation, by the Good Enough for God Life, the condemnation of others can actually make us rejoice!

“Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets…Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets” (Luke 6:22-23, 26).