In our time of need someone may be willing to help us by giving us a bed for the night, or a meal, or valuable counsel, but who, other than God, can give us hope for a new life? We can work on doing a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves but defects are exposed, what hope do we have that the garbage we have uncovered can be removed? We can tell another person about the garbage but what hope do we have that they can do anything about it? A surgeon may be skillful at repairing a broken leg but who can heal a broken spirit?
God wants us to have hope in His ability to restore our fractured spirit. He demonstrated His great love for us by sending Jesus into the world to take our sin and brokenness upon Himself.
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank You that through Jesus my sins are no longer counted against me. For this I am grateful and have cause to hope in Your unfailing promise of a new life. Amen
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