How often can you remember breaking off a relationship because of what someone did or said about us? When you consider the times, it has happened more often than we think. I am so glad God is not like that. Mess ups don’t surprise God. He expects us to make them. He knows what we are made of, because He made us. We are all created by God. (Psalm 103:14 For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.) God won’t stop loving us when we mess up. There is a word for this: GRACE! And grace is absolutely amazing. God looks and you and I and says, I choose to love you. You can’t make me stop loving you. Even when we do things that are ridiculously bad, God doesn’t stop loving us. He loves us the same on our bad days as He does on our good days. God’s love is not performance-based. Maybe you’ve done something over and over and asked for forgiveness. You are not sure if you deserve God’s grace…YOU DON’T! And you are convinced that God is tired of your constant efforts at change…HE HASN’T! We don’t receive grace because we deserve it, we receive grace because of God’s love for us. The Christian life isn’t a mistake-free life, but it can be a guilt-free life. God understands your failures—and he loves you anyway. That’s God’s amazing grace! It is unconditional and it is endless. Pastor Don [image: image.png]