Feeling ashamed and worthless?  Looking in the mirror and seeing guilt, disgrace, and humiliation?  God will never forgive you?  Especially day after day as you struggle to follow Jesus and you are sooooo flawed as you follow Him?  That’s one way of looking at yourself.  It’s also a terrible, wrong-headed view and evaluation of yourself IFFF you are a Christian who loves the Lord and tries to live for Jesus but messes up along the way.  The demand from Jesus is FAITHFULNESS NOT FLAWLESSNESS.  It’s progress not perfection – Jesus’ blood will make us flawless and perfect IFFF we walk by faith.  Read I John 1:6-2:2 as we prepare to study this topic in more depth Friday night.  Then listen to Flawless by MercyMe and have a nice day close to Jesus.

1 John 1:6-2:2

If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.