God really loves you.
He doesn’t, some days, love you… He doesn’t love you only after you nobly bought a home-baked meal to a cancer patient. He doesn’t only love you when you went out of your way to carry an old lady’s grocery bags to her car. He doesn’t only love you when you had a beautiful, candle-lit moment with God and then kept worship songs on during the day.
He loves you.
He loves you on your good days.
He loves you on your bad days.
He loves you when you are at your best.
He loves you at your worst.
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Your mess-ups are never bigger than God’s love. Your conception of how bad you are doing is never greater than the price Jesus paid. In fact, the price Jesus paid actually paid for grace, for you. Grace is the highway back on track with God; not only that, but His unmerited favor, like wind behind your back, goes with you.
Don’t discount yourself.
Don’t compare yourself to others.
Don’t deny that God still wants you.
Don’t believe that His grace is broken on account of you.
It is not. The devil is a liar.
You are all right with God, thanks to Jesus.
God gave you Jesus’ rightness, so that you could always come back on the road of righteousness and obedience, with ease.
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” – 2 Corinthians 5:21
Oh, isn’t the grace of our Lord Jesus so amazing?!
If you feel off track, repent of sin, receive His grace and hop back on the highway of holiness.
If you feel left behind by God, humble yourself, release mistruth and run back into His arms.
If you feel unwanted, ditch the sob story and receive the fact that the Holy Spirit chose to make His dwelling place in you (1 Cor. 6:19)
God wants you, God wants you, God wants you. Period. Exclamation point.
God’s grace is enough to make you right in God’s sight even when you feel horribly and terribly unlovable.
Glory to God!
Praise to the Lamb!
Jesus died with arms wide open.
Always waiting for your grand return.
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