Cover Where I Fail...

Wanna be saved? Easy. Just recognize that you're a sinful person, and that Christ is the ONLY thing that can get you to Heaven, and He died for you on that terrible (and splintery) cross. That's it! Now, God paid the bill. He's Your family now. Welcome! Bienvenidos!

Yet, I won't assure you that you won't pain your way in this walk. You have to fail, complain, fail, humble youse, fail, avoid sinning... Did I have to mention fail? (I have to listen to my own sermons.)

Meanwhile I'm shvetzing over trials and sins, I have made them. After converting, yeah. After baptism, yeah. After puberty...er... yeah. I'm working on it; don't get cocky. I may have gotten A's all over my life (till now, I have a B in Math), but in this one, I HAVE failed. Miserably.

Though God is not about trials, He recognizes our (self-earned) humanity. He knows that we will never be high as the Everest or low as Death Valley unless He wants us to. He will let us fail when it falls on His purpose. Only on that. But, we fail because we want to also.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.(Hebrews 4:16)

Jesus never looked to the expectations of Israel. He was seemingly frail, weak, poor. He looks like he never fulfilled anything, a complete failure. But the devil knew that His death was power. His failure to the world... was a success to God. The only person who even cared for us dared to die for us, too.

Now God loves us. This is why I pray, cover where I fail. And you can pray it, too.