acresofhope

Well, no job hunting for me just yet. Something's wrong with the car, so my dad will be spending his time fixing it tomorrow. One more day as a nobody.

Is it just me, or do things keep happening? I know I've sinned, but is all this really necessary? I feel like I'm being tortured.

I want to make something more of myself! I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and see somebody I like! I'll be twenty-three in a little over a week and I've never driven a car. Never even had a permit to drive. I have a job for the first time in my life, but it's a few hours once a month. I live with my parents. I've recently hurt some people I love dearly, one of them being possibly the best friend I've ever had in my life. I don't like me!

And yet somehow, He does.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:1-2 NIV

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

What, then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:28-39