Excerpted from Lifetime Guarantee.Are You Experiencing Christ's Life Through You? What are you doing with His life during your earthwalk? Are you still trying to milk acceptance and self-esteem out of the world like lost people when you've already got both? Are you still employing the same old methods, such as trying to perform for others to get them to accept you or striving to perform up to your flesh's standards to generate and maintain self-esteem moment by moment?

You are of infinite worth. You are accepted. Not by people, perhaps, but by God! If you're rejected by certain people, welcome to the club. So was Jesus. But He didn't go around with His head down. Why? Because He knew He was accepted.

Do you know that? Or are you prostituting Christ's life by living to get your need for acceptance met? That's sinning, and you are still walking after the flesh, the results of which will be burned up at the Judgment Seat of Christ. There will be no reward, because you will already have had your reward. Self-acceptance. A "righteousness of your own." You are not to strive to get love; we don't live that way now. We live from a posture of knowing that we are loved.

It's time to go to the Lord and repent. You have swallowed the deceiver's lie and wasted many years of Christ's life by striving to get your need for love met through the flesh. You can accept yourself now as the new person you truly are in Him, just as the Father accepts you - perfectly.

Spend some time praising Him for His fantastic, gracious plan whereby He has solved the problem in sweet Jesus. Praise Him, dear relative! Go ahead and weep for joy! It will tickle Him to death. He'll weep for joy with you and hug your neck unabashedly, just as He did when the Prodigal Son came down the road to his father's home. You are totally accepted forever as the new creation you already are.