We had a great day at United yesterday…the energy was high, the creative elements were incredible, the band rocked and based off of some of the comments and e-mails I’ve gotten so far, the message was challenging.  Now here comes the reality I and the team face every Sunday afternoon…”That was great but in another 160 hours or so, we’ve got to do it all over again and it has to be just as good if not better and it has to be completely different from the week before”.

To be honest, that kind of “can you top this’ pressure can be overwhelming at times.  This isn’t major league baseball where having a hit 3 out of every 10 times will land you in the hall of fame…NO…people’s spiritual lives and eternities hang in the balance.  So that’s why we work so hard and try to do everything with excellence.

However here’s the flip side.  It’s also possible to hinge your entire relationship with God on what’s happening.  In other words, if it’s a good day, you feel good about yourself and where you’re at with God.  If it’s a bad day, you feel worthless and like you let God down.

Your saying “Ok Gilbert that’s great, but what does that have to do with me”?  Well my fear is that too many of you don’t realize that God will never love you any more or less than He does right now!  There’s nothing that you can say or do that would change His mind…He is 100% head over heels in love with you!  Now that’s not to say that He’s not pleased with our obedience or grieved by our disobedience, but when it comes to your worth in His eyes, that is unchanging.

So today live without the pressure of having to “top your yesterday” and just live in His love!