Feeling discouraged? Feeling like you have somehow failed in your walk with Jesus? The great author (and chief Ragamuffin) Brennan Manning has some words for you today...
“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.” ― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Jesus does not call us to perfection, or to comparison with saints, or to fame and glory in His name. Jesus calls us to follow. And as with most trips, there will be wrong turns and bad choices. Thank God that because of Jesus, we are loved despite ourselves, not because of what we accomplish. And that love never changes...
Because of Jesus,
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