James 3:2a
2 For we all stumble in many ways.
Have you ever been caught in the terrible cycle of pride and misery? If you think you’re doing well before God, you swell with pride and look down from your exalted height on all the miserable sinners around you. If you sin, especially in one of the ways you consider really sinful, you fall to the gutter. Misery replaces all that self-importance as you try to hide from God and man.
It’s time to be free. God knows you sin. He remembers that you are made of dust and that you, along with all humanity, stumble in many ways. His salvation is for the sinner and He sees you in your up and down of pride and despair. Get off that hell-bound roller coaster and stand before the Father who knows you and, even though He really knows you, loves you.
Prayer prompt: Lord, remind me that You know my stumbling and still love me.