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“Now I’m working nine to five like I can earn my own salvation, but there is no condemnation in You.
--Jimmy Needham

That’s the best part of my faith. There is no condemnation. You have freed me from any guilt or condemnation. Why is it that I don’t really believe that? If I truly believed that, I would be overly anxious to make sure everyone knew that. And I don’t feel pressured to try to make everyone understand that they are children of God, who are loved and free from the condemnation of the world.

“Child, you are forgiven and loved.”
--Jimmy Needham

I was reading the book Just Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybels, and he talks easily and frankly about what it is to be prompted by the Holy Spirit to step out in faith, to share this true faith with someone who might need it.  And that thought not only frightens me, but also repels me. And I don’t know why that is. The God that I know is loving, just, true, and a friend to me.  But I’m afraid that the God that I know will be misinterpreted, or that someone will prejudge the God that I know and think about Him as He is often represented by the world, and I don’t want that for God.  I guess I think that I can, or should, defend Jesus.  As if He needs my help to spread the word of who He really is! This is truly a pointless worry, isn’t it? My God is way more powerful than my feeble attempts, and He wants me to grow and learn and be closer to Him, which is why He asks me to step out in faith. There is no condemnation in you! How do we so easily forget that?