The Present "Me"

**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**

    Who are you today? Who are you, in your successes, your failures, your strengths, your weaknesses?

    You are not who you were and you are not who you will be.

    As you grow more and more into the likeness of Christ, may you be gracious to your present “me”. Yes, we are growing, we are learning and being sharpened and yet we beat ourselves up for not being “there” yet. We beat ourselves up and reject our present selves because we are not who we will be.

    There is grace in the present, there is grace in the moments you sin and you look nothing like Christ. There is grace to grow and there is the grace to be, who you are, now.

    Live in the freedom of this grace. Live in the freedom that grace meets your imperfection in the present. Live in the freedom that God accepts you because of the grace of Jesus.

    Give yourself grace today.

**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**