Robert S. McGee > Quotes

“Because of justification, you are completely forgiven and fully pleasing to God. You no longer have to fear failure.     2. Because of reconciliation, you are totally accepted by God. You no longer have to fear rejection.     3. Because of propitiation, you are deeply loved by God. You no longer have to fear punishment, nor do you have to punish others.     4. Because of regeneration, you have been made brand-new, complete in Christ. You no longer need to experience the pain of shame.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“We have a choice in our response to failure. We can condemn or we can learn. All of us fail, but this doesn't mean that we are failures. We need to understand that failing can be a step toward maturity, not a permanent blot on our self-esteem...We don't have to allow failure to prevent us from being used by God.”
― Robert S. McGee

“Though we may not be so extreme, many of us do have certain Christian activities (church attendance, tithing, Bible studies, and so on) that we feel we must do to be good Christians. These activities themselves are obviously not wrong, but a performance-oriented perspective is wrong.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Confess your sins, worship God, and get on with your life. You can experience the mercy of God no matter what you’ve been through.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“At this point, simply ask the Lord to give you the courage to be honest. Give Him permission to shine His Spirit’s light on your thoughts, feelings, and actions. You may be surprised by additional pain as you realize the extent of your wounds, but our experience of healing can only be as deep as our awareness of the need for it. This takes the power of God’s light. Ask Him to turn on the light.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“but our sin will never change the truth of who we are in Christ.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Justification Justification means that God not only has forgiven me of my sins but also has granted me the righteousness of Christ. Because of justification, I bear Christ’s righteousness, and I am therefore fully pleasing to the Father (Rom. 5:1).”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“We need a safe environment to express our emotions: a good friend or counselor who will help us get in touch with our true feelings, which we may have suppressed for years. We can also learn to express ourselves fully to the Lord and tell Him our true feelings, fears, hopes, and dreams. (The”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Many misguided preachers have used rejection and guilt as a forceful means of motivation. They expound on our weaknesses, our failures, our unworthiness, and our inability to measure up to Christ’s high standards. Not only is our performance declared unworthy, but we are left feeling denounced, devalued, and devastated. As a result, thousands who have been broken by this rejection have left the church without understanding Christ’s accepting, unconditional love, a love that never uses condemnation to correct behavior.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.” (EPH. 2:4–6)”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“From Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden to the obvious depravity we see in our world today, human history is the story of greed, hatred, lust, and pride— evidence of man’s wanton rebellion against the God of love and peace. If not done with a desire to glorify Him, even our good deeds are like filthy garments to God (Isa. 64:6).”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Our value is not dependent on our ability to earn the fickle acceptance of people, but rather, its true source is the love and acceptance of God. He created us. He alone knows how to fulfill all of our needs.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Because of reconciliation, we are completely acceptable to and by God. As these passages illustrate, we enjoy a full and complete relationship with Him, and in this relationship, His determination of our value is not based on our performance.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“We must give up our own efforts to achieve righteousness and instead believe that Christ’s death and resurrection alone are sufficient to pay for our sin and separation from God.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (ROM. 8:1)”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“He loves us. Infinitely, eternally, unconditionally, irrevocably, He loves us.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Isn’t it amazing that we turn to others who have a perspective as limited and darkened as our own to discover our worth! Rather than relying on God’s steady, uplifting reassurance of who we are, we depend on others who base our worth on our ability to meet their standards. Because our performance and ability to please others so dominate our search for significance, we have difficulty recognizing the distinction between our real identity and the way we behave, a realization crucial to understanding our true worth. Our true value is based not on our behavior or the approval of others but on what God’s Word says is true of us.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Many of us are hurt emotionally, relationally, and spiritually, but because we are unaware of the extent of our wounds, we don’t take steps toward healing and health. Our problem is not stupidity but a lack of objectivity. Because of this, we fail to see the reality of pain, hurt, and anger in our lives.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” (COL. 3:12)”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“An accurate, biblical self-concept contains both strength and humility, both sorrow over sin and joy about forgiveness, a deep sense of our need for God’s grace and a deep sense of the reality of God’s grace.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“In today’s society, we have lost the concept of doing something because it is the right thing to do. Instead, we do things in exchange for some reward or favor, or to avoid punishment. Wouldn’t it be novel to do something simply because it is the right thing to do? God’s commands are holy, right, and good, and the Holy Spirit gives us the wisdom and strength to keep them. Therefore, since they have value in themselves, we can choose to obey God and follow His commands.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Another symptom of our fear of rejection is our inability to give and receive love.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“the worthiness to stand in God’s presence.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“The focus of the Christian life should be on Christ, not on self-imposed regulations. Our experience of Christ’s lordship is dependent on our moment-by-moment attention to His instruction, not on our own regimented schedule.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“God’s commands are given for two good purposes: to protect us from the destructiveness of sin and to direct us into a life of joy and fruitfulness.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Adam, however, was not deceived. He deliberately chose to forsake the love and security of God and follow Eve in sin.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Luke 6. He said, “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” (vv. 27–28).”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Because it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’” (1 PET. 1:16)”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“point of justification is that we can never achieve perfection on this earth; even our best efforts at self-righteousness are as filthy rags to God (Isa. 64:6).”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes