{"id":8605,"date":"2024-10-28T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:29:04","slug":"the-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/the-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" \"\" \"\" \"\" \"\" \"\" \"\"<\/h6>\n
A bird can\u2019t drive a car<\/h6>\n
But it can fly about the skies\u2026<\/h6>\n
A caterpillar can\u2019t milk a cow<\/h6>\n
But it can go into a cocoon and become<\/h6>\n
A beautiful butterfly.<\/h6>\n
A lion can\u2019t swim in deep oceans<\/h6>\n
But it pierces the forest with its mighty roar<\/h6>\n
A whale can\u2019t walk on dry land<\/h6>\n
But, upon oceans and seas, it soars\u2026<\/h6>\n
A tiny baby can\u2019t speak or walk<\/h6>\n
But lying at his mother\u2019s breast, he listens to his mother talk.<\/h6>\n
She whispers, I love you be blessed<\/h6>\n
Love, is so powerful, it calms the seas, it gives us peace,<\/h6>\n
God\u2019s love will never cease!<\/h6>\n
Love one another, for God is Love!<\/h6>\n
Sometimes we have expectations about how certain things should be done. Our perception is one way, but when we take a closer look, we see that it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.<\/h6>\n
For instance, I thought in order to be a speaker you had to have everything perfect. That a great speaker is someone who knows all their lines and doesn\u2019t read from notes. They\u2019re animated and well put together. They look at the audience and don\u2019t miss a word. They\u2019re passionate and composed.<\/h6>\n
God sees each of us as we are meant to be. So, he puts us in situations to stretch and grows us, not to our specifications but to His. Not to be without flaws but real.<\/h6>\n
Everyone is different. Different heritage, linage, different DNA. Not to be a robot, but a person with our very own fingerprints, footprints; fit together for His design.<\/h6>\n
I can\u2019t be you, and You, can\u2019t be me. We are individuals being transformed into the image of the Living God!<\/h6>\n
Just like the body\u2026there is one head, one heart and one brain, but all of our parts fit together in perfect unison, working together to keep us alive. All the parts are needed. We can survive without certain parts, but it makes it a little harder to function. With God\u2019s help we can thrive and accomplish everything that we were created for.<\/h6>\n
You may sing like an angel and someone else, try as they might, sounds like a sick toad. But that doesn\u2019t mean that the sick toad person, doesn\u2019t have other redeeming qualities. Use the gifts God has put within you and I promise, you will fulfill the call on your life, and it will be a beautiful masterpiece. God doesn\u2019t make mistakes\u2026he designs you in His eyes as a perfect masterpiece\u2026<\/h6>\n
All for God\u2019s Glory! Amen!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill October 28, 2024<\/h6>\n
Ephesians 2:7-10 The Message <\/em><\/strong>Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It\u2019s God\u2019s gift from start to finish! We don\u2019t play the major role. If we did, we\u2019d probably go around bragging that we\u2019d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Ephesians 2:10 New Living Translation <\/em><\/strong>For we are God\u2019s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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