Wheresoever my pathway may lead

There's an old hymn popularly sung in the Philippines that goes:

The mercies of God What a theme for my song
Oh I never could number them o'er
They're more than the stars in the heavenly dome
Or the sands of the wavebeaten shore

Chorus
For mercies so great, What return can I make
For mercies so constant and sure
I'll love him, I'll serve Him with all that I have
As long as my life shall endure

They greet me at morn when I waken from sleep
And they gladden my heart at the noon
They follow me on into shades of the night
when the day with its labor is done

“When Paul says ‘we are accepted in the beloved,’ that’s just simply saying that the Father, when He looks at us, sees us in Christ, but He sees us in the beloved One in whom He’s well-pleased. Do Believers truly grasp that they're not just accepted by God--they are acceptable TO God?

“Feelings of rejection and/or alienation are some of the most painful and damaging emotions. They lead to distorted images of your own value.

"We look at ourselves in our everyday walk and we see the tempers, the peevish minds, the rebellious thinking, the insensitivity, the indifference, the coldness, the barrenness.

“We sense what the song writer said, ‘Prone to wander, Lord I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.’ We see that in ourselves and we begin to think that God looks at us that way too. It’s because we spend time thinking that way and we slide back into that.

“When you’re out trying to seek the approval of men, you know what that is? That’s really idolatry. You’re giving men, people--whether it’s you or someone else--the position that only God ought to have in our life. The antidote is this complete forgiveness and acceptance in Christ and you just simply resting in that perfect identity God gives you in the Beloved and the love of God to you in Christ Jesus.

“In Romans 8 is a passage you ought to be putting into your frame of reference. This passage can absolutely transform your days:

[31] What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
[32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
[33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
[34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
[35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
[36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“What does tribulation do if you’re walking in the wisdom of God’s Word, living in God’s grace? It works patience. If you’re thinking about yourself the way God thinks about it, instead of saying, ‘Here’s trouble coming into my life—God’s forsaken me,' you think, ‘I’m accepted in the Beloved; God has equipped me. I can stay with the Word, stay with who I am in Christ and that will work some experience.’ "

"That's whether it’s personal problems, economic problems, or peril, or sword, or nakedness--all the things that we fear. You can get caught up in the dust and act like if you don’t get your way in it, God’s forsaken you. That stuff can crowd in your mind where you forget who you really are, but we're more than conquerors through Him that loved us!"