Beth Moore - Substance and Shadow - Part 3

What in effect we have done is chosen a shadow to be our head, a shadow head. We're detached from the real head who is Christ, and we have chosen shadow things, all the religious trappings, to give us what we think we need to find ourselves excellent and worthy.

We are meant to walk so closely in fellowship with the Lord that no matter what happens, the thing that we know are absolute unshakeable is that we are loved by God. That is immunity. That is, it doesn't mean that it protects us from ever getting hurt. It means that there is no hurt that comes to us that makes us conclude we are unloved and unknown and unnoticed by God, that somehow we are held in that place. Am I making sense to anybody in the house today? It's a beautiful place. And in fact, I'm not sure that we can know the intimacy of it, the preciousness of it, unless we know what it's like to be in that place and be in pain and be in peril and somehow, unexplainably, feel completely loved by God.