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He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the West.

Psalm 103 12.

We all have our own version of Star Charts,

something we are trying to get approval for, from our parents, friends, spouses,

kids, online acquaintances, co-workers, or even from God. Most of us carry that striving feeling all our lives.

But the way we interact with people eventually makes its way into our spiritual lives.

So often we try to relate to God through star charts, and we end

up feeling shame or disappointment that our performance didn't bring the outcome we wanted. We try to work harder, achieve more, jump

farther, score higher, all in order to win his approval or blessing. We end up relating to God with an underlying fear rather than

full of expectant childlike joy. God doesn't work with star charts. He is not manipulated by our performance.

In Jeremiah 9, 23 and 24, he says,

Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom. Let not the mighty man boast in his might.

Let not the rich man boast in his riches. But let him who boasts boast in this that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices

steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth.

For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.

God is not after great performances or great movements. He is after us. God already knows that we are not

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