3 October 2026
Yesterday, I spent time looking at Romans 5:8 and Philippians 3:8, completely blown away by the fact that Jesus died for me while I was still a sinner. Broken and all. I realized that everything else in this world—especially my grades and the need to look perfect—is completely temporary compared to knowing Him.
But if I’m being completely honest with myself today, it is one thing to know that truth, and it’s another thing to actually live like it’s true.
It is so easy to slide right back into my old ways of thinking. The second a stressful assignment pops up, or the moment I remember a mistake I made in my past, that heavy weight of anxiety creeps right back in. I start trying to earn my way into God’s good graces again. I start acting like my worth is tied to my performance.
However, we do not need to earn our way into God’s grace again. He showed that through Jesus’ death on the cross.
It is finished. John 19:30
Nothing can change the fact that God loves us so, so, so much. We do not need to come to God perfectly,
We can go to him however broken, fallen and sinful we are.
God delights when we turn to him.
He longs for us to pray and talk to Him.
This reminds me of the parable of the Prodigal Son.
“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son’” Luke 15:21
Then later…
“ ‘ My son’” the father said, ‘you are always with me and everything I have is yours’” Luke 15:31
In this passage, the son feels like he is not worthy of being the father’s child because of his past actions. However, his father forgives him and reminds him that he will always be his son.
In our relationship with God, we fall short every day but God invites us to turn back to him.
We are still children of God. He will never stop loving us.