And then He made us.

If everything He made was so good, you might ask, "Why don't I feel that way? Why do I feel like such a failure at times?" Well, consider the following and maybe you will begin to understand.

God made every snowflake unique; He made each grain of sand, none alike. He made the clouds that float across the sky and you'll never see a duplicate of another.

But we don't mourn when a snowflake melts, never to be seen again, or a cloud blows on to an unknown destination. And I just empty the sand out of my shoes after a walk down the beach.

Of all of God's marvelous creations, we are the one that He came to redeem. We are the one that He came to die for. No other creation on earth was worth that much to Him because we're the only one made in His image. He looked at us and said, "They are all like sheep; They've gone astray." And He set the plan in motion that He had made from the foundation of the world--He sent His only Son to save us so that we could be:

So, when you don't feel like you're going to make it, remember that He promised never to leave or forsake you. You can do all things through Him who strengthens you, and that whoever is born of God overcomes the world--that nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus:

So we can come BOLDLY to our Father before His throne, with confidence and believe that we can ask anything in His name with assurance.