A Life of Renpentance

Image result for frustrated images free Do you ever read blogs and think, well, I wish my life were that perfect.  I  homeschooled all my children from Kindergarten through  twelfth grade.  I am rather glad there were no blog early on when  I started, or I would have felt like a failure.  It's the same on Facebook, we  all tend to  post what's  good that's going on in our lives, and exclude our failures.

If you read yesterday's blog post, you might have thought the rest of my day went on  like a breeze, but oh contraire, it did not.  I had so much frustration. Things that could go wrong did  go wrong, and of course my first impulse was to  gripe.  I nearly lost it when my violin bow wouldn't wind. I have a rehearsal Sunday in church, now what???  I really felt the  words that Paul wrote  when  he said, "For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not  do what I  want, but  I do the very thing I hate." (Romans 7:15)

I thought, well, you are some Christian, you wrote such a confident blog post this morning. You're nothing but a phony and a fake.  Then I remembered something very important.  If we repent, Jesus is faithful and just to forgive us all our sins.  A Christian's life isn't one of perfection.  A Christian's life is a life of repentance.  We are always going to sin, and if we go to our Father through Jesus, He will forgive us.

Hope this help you today.

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