Do you ever feel like life is a real bummer - like every time you try you fail, every time you get up you fall, every time you think things are going okay they come crashing in around you?
Welcome to the club! Sometimes we as Christians think that when we come to Christ we are perfect. We read how when God sees us he sees Jesus and Scriptures like "be perfect as I am perfect." And we see the lives of the apostles and think that when we blow it then God just can't love me.
The Apostle John had a great perspective on this. He said "if we say we have no sin then we lie and the truth is not in us." When we do fail we need someone to stand in for us - that's Jesus. He takes the punishment for us so we can indeed be clean before God.
But what if we don't feel clean? What about those times when we just feel like dirt even after we have repented and sought God's forgiveness?
Listen to this little verse: 1 John 3:19 "By this we shal know that we are of the truth and reasure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything."
Even if you don't feel forgiven, can you trust the One who knows more than you?
Pastor Tom
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