Discover your heavenly Father’s love for you

When you blow it – I mean, when you really mess up big time – do you hide from God? Sometimes I do. What if, instead of feeling like a failure and slinking away in shame when we give into temptation, we looked at ourselves the way God looks at us: as His much-loved child? Whenever I read Romans 8, I see more clearly the type of relationship God wants to have with us. Each time I finish the chapter, I understand a little bit more about why He paid such a high price to secure this kind of relationship with us. I always smile at verse 15: “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘A