Discouraging Thought: I fall short in the same way over and over.
Encouraging Truth: "For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful
redemption." - Psalm 130:7b
Loving Instruction: "I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin." - Psalm 38:18
"Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who
died to sin still live in it?" - Romans 6:1b, 2
Our Reward: "as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions
from us." - Psalm 103:12
I fail every day in the same way I did the day before. Every day, I respond to my children impatiently and rashly. Temper tantrums, disobedience, whining, and sometimes my toddler just being a toddler are all things to which I can respond incorrectly. I want to respond correctly. I want to be patient, loving, and gentle at all times. But I fail. Almost every day. Some days it does seem easier to just give in and allow myself to respond incorrectly, knowing that I'm washed in the blood. But as Paul wrote in Romans 6, "by no means" am I to do that. And God "knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust." (Psalm 103:14) It is such a comfort that God knows we are going to continually fail, yet loves us just the same. Even more comforting is that He forgives our sin, forgetting it ever happened. Such a freeing truth!
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