SIN: There have been times in my life when my sin stares me right in the face and I can identify it in an instant. There are also times when my sin looks more like a familiar, friendly face and something that I want to keep a part of my life because it's comfortable, or maybe because admitting I am wrong is no fun at all and I don't want others to think I don't have my life together.
BROKENNESS: Today at church I was hit with my need to be increasingly aware of and made broken over my sin-to consistently work on ridding it from my life. Sometimes this feels impossible, but the One I belong to and represent is "holy, holy, holy [the] Lord Almighty, the Conqueror of sin (Isaiah 6:3) I am so thankful to be the child of One who draws me near with His loving-kindness.
GRACE: I can't forget about grace. That thing which I don't deserve a smidgen of, but which is being poured over me like a constant flood by the Holiest One of all. I was once told that for every sin I agonize over, I need to remind myself of six ways in which God has shown me grace. His grace is greater than all my sin!
WORSHIP: A friend sang a song at church today, written by David Crowder and called "How He Loves Us" reminds me that I need to focus on the loving kindness and holiness of God more than I think on regrets. In the words of D.C., "I don't have time to maintain these regrets, When I think about, the way He loves me...I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory, And I realize just how beautiful You are, And how great Your affections are for me."
Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
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