1 PETER 2:24

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” NIV 

TO PONDER

Do we live knowing that we are not just forgiven, but accepted and loved in our state of brokenness, despite out failings and mishaps as we ‘miss the mark’?  

If we live in that state of acceptance, there is a freedom to continue in the day, to turn around from the mishap, living in the grace of Jesus, growing, and learning in the guidance of the Spirit, gaining strength and wisdom as we walk in the Truth.  If we don’t, we live rejecting that grace, negating the work of the Jesus and the cross, ruled by our guilt and shame, succumbing to a smaller and rigid containment of our own spirit as we try to live in our own righteousness, instead of God’s righteousness; our being right with God through Jesus.  

PRAYER: Jesus, we cry out to you as the parent seeking healing for his child. “I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!”  Let me walk in your righteousness today.  (Mark 9:24). 

Today's devotion written by Barb Niczynski, LifeWay Illawarra