“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl Jung

It is now a week after the beginning of the New Year and many people, if not most, have already failed to live up to their resolutions.  The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that too many people fail to attain the goal that was set.  For New Year’s resolutions, failure is often something that will not cause great condemnation to befall us, however, the fact that so many have failed in living for God does tend to cause great condemnation.  However, that condemnation is not of God, but conviction is.  Condemnation drives one away from God while conviction draws one to God.  If you have failed and feel you cannot approach God, you are filled with condemnation.  If you have failed and are drawn to the presence of God, you have been graced by conviction.  It is exciting to know that God does not condemn.  It does not matter if you failed a million times last year, or a million times last week, God is ready with open arms to embrace you upon your repentance.  Do not allow the adversary to speak condemnation into your spirit, but allow the conviction of the Holy Ghost to penetrate your life and direct you to the throne of grace.  It is interesting to note that Romans eight begins by dealing with the fact that condemnation is possible, if we do not follow the Spirit, and it ends with the fact that if we do follow after the Spirit that there is nothing in this world that can separate us from the love of Christ.  Christ’s love is the embodiment of God because Scripture tells us that God IS love.  Christ’s love led Him to Calvary, and if that mindset is the embodiment of God, it will have to take someone willfully walking away from God to lose out with Him because nothing we can do is too bad for His love not to embrace us.  If you knew that God’s love would embrace you through all things, what risks would you consider taking?  Loving someone else?  Doing something for God that is beyond your ability?  Take up the challenge and know that God is behind you, supporting you in your endeavors for Him.