Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
The Unbreakable Promise
Have you ever noticed how the most profound spiritual truths are often the simplest? That childhood song "Jesus Loves Me" contains more theological depth than we typically acknowledge. While relegated to Sunday School classrooms, its message forms the bedrock of our relationship with God throughout adulthood.
We all experience those moments of deep personal failure – harsh words spoken to loved ones, poor decisions made in haste, or falling short of our own standards. In these moments, our natural tendency is to believe God must be disappointed or angry. We project our self-criticism onto our perception of how God views us. But the biblical truth stands in stark contrast to this assumption.
Take five minutes today to reset your spiritual compass by remembering this fundamental truth: Jesus loves you exactly as you are. This isn't just a children's song – it's the foundation that can sustain you through every challenge.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax and let me help you start your day right. When I was a kid, growing up, in church we had all kinds of kids' songs that we used to sing. We don't really sing a lot of those anymore, but there's one that sticks with you and that you remember because the truth is so simple and so important. It simply went like this. It said Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong, they are weak, but he is strong. Yes, jesus loves me. Yes, jesus loves me. Yes, jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. What a great song.
Speaker 1:That song was relegated to a kid's chorus in Sunday school, but the truth of it goes way beyond that of a child Sunday school. But the truth of it goes way beyond that of a child. It goes into the lives of all of us as adults, throughout all of our lives the knowledge that God loves us, that Jesus loves us, and sometimes we need to just stop and be reminded about how much God loves us. Right now, right where we are in our lives, it's very easy for us to feel beat up, sometimes, not just because of what we are hearing, but because we recognize our own failures. We know that we should have done better yesterday. Or I shouldn't have said that, or shouldn't have done that, or, man, I really blew it with my kids, or with my co-worker, or with my spouse. I really shouldn't have reacted like I did. And we can beat ourselves up. We get so down on ourselves in it. Our immediate response is to think that God's mad at us because we failed. The simple promise from God is that he loves us.
Speaker 1:John 3.16 is the most well-known verse throughout the whole Bible, for God loved the world so very much that he gave to us his one and only Son, so that whoever believed in him would not die but would have eternal life with God. Jesus Christ came so that we might have the relationship that leads to that place where we can go and be with God in heaven forever. But that relationship right now is a personal one between us and Jesus that each of us have every day. Matthew 12, verse 20, tells it a beautiful way. It says A bruised reed he will not break and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Man, if we're bruised and we're hurting and we are feeling bruised and hurting sometimes he's not going to break us. A bruised reed he's going to love on, he's going to heal. He's going to come and stand by and stand with and give strength to A smoldering wick, as long as there's a little bit of flame there. The wick doesn't have to be blazing in full flame, there just has to be a little bit there and God's not going to come along and snuff it out. Instead, he's going to come and lift it up and strengthen it. God's not mad at us. God loves us.
Speaker 1:The Bible tells us that when we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And then it says also that our sins are cast as far away as the east is from the west. God doesn't look upon you and I as sinners. He doesn't look upon you and I as failures. Even when we make a mistake, he still loves us and His desire for each one of us is just to turn to him and come to him and let him receive us back to himself, as we continue to receive God's love into us, we are then more able to share that love to people around us, to make a difference in the lives of people, to make a difference in our family and friends, to lift them up and let them see and experience all of the good things that God has, all of the power that God has working in their lives. We can make a difference to them and in them.
Speaker 1:This morning, I just want you to know that Jesus loves you and that he's with you right now. And whoever or whatever is trying to steal your joy or steal your confidence in God, listen to the truth. God loves you. He loves you more than you can ever imagine or think. He gave a son for you to die for you, and he gives you life and a relationship with him because he loves you and cares about you. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Friends, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
