"For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
This is a trustworthy statement..."
What more can I say? He didn't spare His own Son but gave Him up willingly for us! Don't you just want to know Him more and more? Don't you just want to give up the petty, futile, and fading trinkets of this world for the Eternal Joy and Treasure whose name is Jesus Christ? Is any sin worth holding on to rather than relinquishing it to be embraced by the nail-scarred hands that fashioned your very being? Ask the Lord to show you what you are loving more than Him, and ask Him for the grace and strength to let it go.
"...let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
Hebrews 12:1-2
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