A no good, terrible day...or was it?

Let me be completely honest with you for about .5 seconds or however long it takes you to read the next sentence.
Today seemed rotten because of my nasty pride and the deceptiveness of sin.
How quickly we turn to our own devices, thinking we know our way is best and not being totally honest that God's way is 100% right 100% of the time.
ALWAYS. and it's dependable. He isn't always right unless you know a better way, or always right unless someone else tells you differently. God's ways have never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever been wrong.
But I still blow it. big time. And it hurts. It hurts to have your errors laid before you. It hurts to have the humbling realization that you are in the wrong, that you have, like a stupid sheep, wandered from the fold once again. And it can be very humbling and painful to confess those wrongdoings to others.
But Christ still loves us. Our penalty was paid at the cross. We don't have to dwell in the evils we have committed, but look unto Jesus, who took on the wrath of God that I deserve.
And so when you are His, there is such a strange beauty in falling. Because when we fall, our gracious Abba Father picks us up. He still calls us child and embraces us, loving us the same yesterday, today, and forever because he doesn't see our filthiness anymore. All He sees is the purity and radiant holiness of the Spotless Lamb. The valleys help us stop and fix our eyes on the God who is so far above us. And fixing our eyes on a holy, just and miraculously forgiving God puts even the really bad days into an eternal perspective of everlasting forgiveness. And what could be better than that?
~Bugg