The longer I live, the more I see how sinful I actually am, and the more I see how much I need God's Grace. It's frustrating, to tell the truth. But thank God by His Grace I am His child and will one day not only be new in spirit but will also have a new body free from sin's curse! At this time tho, I need to let the struggles I daily face draw me closer to God. He died for us while we were still in sin and knew that even after He made us His children (when we accept His free gift of Salvation through Jesus Christ) we'd still disobey and hurt Him. It's so easy to forget that even as we could not save ourselves, so we cannot make or keep ourselves the children of God. After we are saved, we still cannot work our way to God. In fact, we realize more how much we need His Grace to continually change us and make us more like Christ. God does that work in our lives, and I thank Him so much for His Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Mercy, and Grace. I love the songs "
You Never Let Go" by Matt and Beth Redman, "
Undo" by Rush of Fools, and "
East to West" by Casting Crowns. How true they are!
Check them out sometime.
Here is a video that I found on a
friend's site:
Romans 5 (KJV)[1] Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
[2] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
[3] And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
[4] And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
[5] And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
[6] For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
[7] For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
[8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[9] Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
[10]
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of
his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
[11] And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
[12]
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
[13] (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
[14]
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had
not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the
figure of him that was to come.
[15] But not as the offence,
so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be
dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by
one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
[16] And not
as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by
one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto
justification.
[17] For if by one man's offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
[18]
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.
[19] For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
[20] Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
[21]
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. 
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