No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

Father God, thank You for having 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. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, You did by sending Your own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. (Rom. 8:1-3) Help me to understand that the loving chastisement that might come to me after I have rebelled against You is only in the purest Father's love and is never to be confused with condemnation. (Heb. 12:6)

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.