Condemnation or Conviction?

People say what they think is right, and yet God's ways are right and not what people think.  People think you're never good enough, God says you're good enough.  Good enough for Him that He sent His own Son to die for us even while we were sinners.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

Throughout our life, people tell us the negative.  We can clean our room, but rather than being praised for doing so, our parents may say we didn't clean it good enough. We may work through lunch and stay late to finish project at work.  But the boss finds one small mistake in the work submitted and they focus on that mistake and neglect to focus on your sacrifice of personal time to finish the project on time.

It is people who speak condemnation and not God.

Does God want us to obey Him? Yes!  But if we're busy focusing on our failures and mistakes rather than on our successes and those things we do right in God's eyes, how can we strive for the future if we're so busy living in the past?

Satan tells us, you didn't pray long enough, loud enough.  You didn't read scripture long enough today.  You weren't focused enough on the sermon or on God.  Satan tells us...you're not good enough.  

God says we are! We are SO good enough that Christ died for us. 

A desire to pray, spend time in scripture and time with God does NOT come through trying to force it because we're trying to measure up.  But it comes through resting in Christ and knowing we are good enough.  Until we know that, how can we realize what He truly did?  How can we realize the worth of others if we cannot realize our own worth to Him?

Today remind yourself that you're good enough.  Tell satan, and those condemning voices, ENOUGH!  God says I'm good enough.  I may fail, but I will NOT be defined by my failure but by God's Word and what He says about me.  

You've listened to the lies long enough.  Allow yourself to listen to the truth and quit beating yourself up.  Until we realize that all the negative voices we hear of what we haven't done aren't from God, we can't grow much further. 

Pray, Lord I've failed to do as Your Word says today, please forgive me and cleanse me of all unrighteousness. 

Now let it go.  You've released it to God.  He's forgiven AND forgotten.  Time for you to do the same.  Stop dwelling on yesterday's mistakes and dwell on tomorrow's successes.