Greater Than Your Failure… ❤️

Sometimes I get really frustrated with myself.

I can spend all day sitting in front of my five open Bibles, writing texts, sermons, worship songs… and then in the evening, I suddenly say things or act in ways I simply shouldn’t.

Yes, it happens to me. 😔 Does it happen to you too?

We’re all human, just like Jacob was human. He was even someone chosen by God! (See Genesis 25:23)  

What I find comforting is this:

God chose Jacob before Jacob had learned how to live as someone who was chosen.

When you read Jacob’s story, you won’t find a perfect example of faith. You’ll see a man who manipulates, deceives, takes matters into his own hands, and even tries to secure a blessing that God had already promised him.

God knew it would turn out this way—and He chose him anyway!

God also knew that YOU would do things you’d rather no one ever found out about—and He still invites you into His plan. 😮

God chooses people before they have learned how to live as those who are chosen.

The undeserved grace of God that meets us along our journey is the reason we’re allowed to keep going…

❤️ Grace means this—listen closely:

“He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalms 103:10-12)  

Shall we pray?

“Jesus, that was wrong. Please forgive me. Thank you that Your grace is greater than my failure. Help me to live today as the person You have called me to be. Amen.”

You are a miracle!