I don’t deserve anything. I don’t deserve what I’ve been blessed with. I don’t deserve to live.

I don’t deserve any of life’s simple pleasures or God’s grace. As I am, I deserve the worst. I deserve the worst possible things life could throw at me. Am I good enough? No. In asking that, am I even a good person? And again, the answer to that question is no. I am a human being; therefore, there is no good in me. My fleshly desires will always get in the way. They will get in the way of who I really want to be and who I really need to be. These fleshly desires will always be a hindrance. Why? Because I’m human. I’ll never be perfect– not even close to it. My flaws are many, and my strengths are few. However, despite my iniquities, God has divinely intervened. Although I clearly don’t deserve anything, God made a way for me. I don’t deserve those simple pleasures nor do I deserve God’s grace, but I’m blessed with a life that’s been saved by His grace. Because of that grace, I am allowed to live a life basking in the immense amount of simple pleasures God has created.

Again, I am not a good person, and I’ll never be good enough, but letting Christ’s light shine through me makes me a better person. For without Him, I am nothing. I face a daily battle of struggling to fight my sins. Honestly, not sinning is impossible, but sinning less isn’t. Even when I do sin, God’s grace picks me back up again. I may have fallen down, but when I look to God all I see is forgiveness. He is a forgiver indeed, as I should be. When I let God take over, my flaws become nothing. In His eyes, my weaknesses are unimportant; He gives me the strength I need.

Galatians 2:20 says,”I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Knowing that God did all of this for me renders me speechless. Because His only son was crucified, I now live a life I don’t deserve. Christ lives in me; therefore, I am called to respect my body as His temple and to speak to all mankind of His glory. I cannot thank God enough for giving me the joy of being able to help spread his message and grow his kingdom. Because Christ gave himself for me, I cannot sit here and wonder when he’s going to do something; I have to do something. I have to step up, in faith, and spread the gospel. After all, it is the least I can do.