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My hope and help in life
I cannot earn it, nor do I need to try! God loves me and wants me free from my faults more than I do. He has made a way available for us if we trust in Him not ourselves and others.
I am so relieved to learn that fixing myself is not up to me! Even if I can fix some outward actions I can never truly fix my heart and attitudes. Knowing Jesus cleans my heart and loves me even when I fail, still, at times is baffling to me.
As a child I used to think I deserved to get my own way. Realizing my tantrums and anger did not please God and that I( not others) needed to change was a big step for me. Later in life I often thought that while God did love me( and send Jesus to rescue me from myself and my failures/rebellion against Him) that I had to maintain His love by doing or not doing certain things. I am still learning that in Jesus I am totally accepted and loved. May I obey out of amazed gratitude that I am so loved.
I know that nothing in this life, nothing I say or do, nothing I do not say or do not do can give me life in heaven or acceptance with God. Jesus alone is my hope of heaven!
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