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b'Crawling into bed, I snuggled under the blankets as clouds filled my\\nmind. \\u201cAnother day I\\u2019ve messed up,\\u201d I thought, tears filling my eyes. \\u201cWhen\\nwill I ever get it right?\\u201d Despair filled my mind, making sleep impossible.\\nI wanted to pray, but I was too scared to do it. Why would God want to\\nlisten to me after I had failed Him for the umpteenth time? I could just\\npicture Him shaking His head with a groan as I stumbled forward to ask for\\nforgiveness\\u2026 again.\\n.\\nI pulled my knees into my chest, and pulled the covers around tighter.\\nThen, a voice spoke right to my heart\\u2026 \\u201cTherefore, there is now no\\ncondemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.\\u201d It was a ray of sunshine\\nfrom heaven. I had heard the verse (Romans 8:1) before, but never needed to\\nhear those words as much as I did then.\\n.\\nGod doesn\\u2019t expect perfection from His children\\u2014and He does not condemn us.\\nHe knows that all humans sin, failing to love Him and one another (Matthew\\n22:37-40; Romans 3:23-24). Our sin grieves Him because He loves us and sin\\nhurts us, but He also understands the struggle we go through. More than\\nthat, He gives us victory in our struggle\\u2014because His own Son, Jesus, lived\\nthrough the same struggles we now experience, and He defeated every\\ntemptation. Once we\\u2019ve put our trust in Jesus, we have His Spirit in us,\\ngiving us that same power to resist sin.\\n.\\nAnd even when we fail, not only does God understand, but He has already\\nforgiven us through the death and resurrection of Jesus. \\u201cTherefore, there\\nis now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus\\u201d (Romans 8:1,\\nemphasis added). As we come to Him, repenting from our sins and seeking His\\nhelp, He gladly gives it to us out of love. We don\\u2019t have to be afraid of\\npunishment because Jesus took our punishment upon Himself when He went to\\nthe cross\\u2026 and nothing can separate us from His love (Romans 8:38-39).\\nSo, through each struggle, temptation, sin, and failure, He is still there,\\nready to help you through and ready to give you victory. \\u2022 Lily Walsh\\n.\\n\\u2022 Do you ever feel like you\\u2019ve failed too many times to receive God\\u2019s\\ngrace? How does today\\u2019s Bible passage speak into this? \\n.\\n\\u2022 How can knowing that God gives us victory through Christ give us hope,\\nespecially when we fail? (If you want to dig deeper, read John 3:16-17;\\nHebrews 4:14-16; and 1 John 4:18.) \\n.\\nTherefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.\\nRomans 8:1 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nRom.8.1-Rom.8.14'