James 1:14-15
Each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.

We are all tempted and have fallen…and will no doubt fall again. Each of us seems to have at least one major flaw that we just can’t seem to kick…that proverbial “thorn in our flesh” as St. Paul might have put it. If we didn’t have this secret place where we just can’t save ourselves, we wouldn’t need God, would we? As is sung in the Easter Vigil liturgy in The Exsultet, “O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!” What if Christ wants nothing more than to be with us in our failings? What if Christ wants to embrace us and tell us He loves us anyway? I have experienced the love of Christ after falling. Sin in itself leads to a dead end. But with Christ it leads to transformation, new life and redemption!

Suggested song of the day–“Salvation” on the Live to Love album.
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Have a blessed day!