Never cast aside

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.” (John 8:29)

When I read these words, my first reaction was, “I wish I could say what Jesus did. I wish I could say I always do what pleases the Father.”

But the truth is, I often fall. I sin.

Recently, I often find myself questioning my motives. I question my thoughts, my words, my actions. “Are these things pleasing to you, God?”

And sometimes, I just don’t know.

But the amazing thing is I can say the same thing that Jesus did. The Father is still with me. He has not left me alone.

I can say that not because I always do what pleases the Father. Because many times I don’t.

I can say it because Jesus paid the price for all my sins on the cross. And each day, I stand in his grace.

As Paul once wrote,

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. (Romans 5:1-2)

Let us hold on to that truth today, and every day.