Your sin, our adversary and God's agape love.

"So . . . you sinned again huh(Guilt)? pft, loser. you always have struggled with this, you always will. I can't believe how stupid you are! you did it again!"

            Ever heard that before? yeah, me too. His name is hatred, proud, father of lies. Satan, and he will give ANYTHING to watch you crash and burn. One of the ways he does this is by making you believe you aren't worth God's forgiveness, and ever that He won't forgive you.

            You see, satan hates God, so in turn he hates you and the more people he can drag down to Hell with him the better. If you are beaten down and don't think that God will forgive you, then you also assume that you aren't worthy of telling someone else the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so satans plan worked. So what do you do about that guilt? What about the whole, I'm not worth God's forgiveness, thing?

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

            " If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

            We ought to seek out mercy from the God of mercy and ask forgiveness from the God who promised it to all who ask.

            Don't 'play God' and judge yourself, you don't have that authority.

            Don't act like your sin is more potent than the love of God.

God is good, and I am not.

Here are the conclusions I have come to in the last few days.

God is good, and I am not.

I know that a lot of time this can sound really cliché, but the concept of right and wrong will dictate the entire way we live our lives. Think about it. If I were to just up and decide that I can go and get drunk on every night, then the next morning sing oh how I love Jesus . . . there is something wrong with my mindset. The problem is my view on what is right and wrong, is far, far from the truth that is found in God's Word which we know to be truth. Now how do we know when we are off from the straight and narrow. Well, it's actually very simple. If it goes against the Word of God, or if it offends your conscience, don't do it. God's word is never going to lead us astray if we read AND believe it.

Second, God is faithful.

Again, sounds cliché. Deal with it.

I found myself two weeks into the semester, so far from God I hardly knew even where I was, so I asked the Lord to show me something that I had to change in my life. (be careful when you ask for that, He will do it.) Pride. It was and will continue to be my biggest struggle. God absolutely crushed my pride on Sunday with the message from the church that I go to. Being friends with the world is to be the enemy of God, and that's just what the Word of God says, whether you like it or not.

Overall, I am so thankful for the Lord and all that He has done in my heart this last week. How awesome is His love for me that every time I mess something up again he just says, "pft, told you. now come back over here where you belong."

God is good, I am not. God is faithful. Praise Him for it.