When we find our identity in Christ, we need to fully embrace God's marvelous grace and let go of the guilt and shame accumulated in our wanderings.
In His family, we are able to achieve a whole, healed identity...an enriched life blessed with freedom, peace, and joy. With our salvation, we have an opportunity for an abundant and fruitful life, which results from receiving His unconditional love.
Let us cling to this picture of His acceptance and forgiveness; His desire and capacity to save the lost and hurting! Let us rejoice that He deems us worthy!
And may we envelop ourselves in His mercy and grace, given freely by The Living God to His precious children in Christ.
1 Timothy 1:14-15
And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. .
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Luke 15:20
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
Matthew 18:11
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
