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Have you ever received a bad score on a test, and your grade in the class dropped?  If you can relate, you are not the only one. It's happened to me a few times as well. After that test and seeing your grade drop, it feels like you will never be able to bring it back to where it once was.

Many times, we can feel the same way when it comes to our relationship with Jesus. We think that after we make a mistake, we can never experience God's love again, or we are always trying to do "good deeds" to make up for that one mistake in our past. I want to point to what Paul says in the book of Romans to silence the lie that our mistakes hold us back from God's love. In today's verse, we see God sent Jesus to die for us. The beautiful part about this is that God didn't wait until we earned it or did a certain amount of "good deeds" before offering us forgiveness. No, even before you made a mistake, God sent Jesus so YOU can have a relationship with God.

My challenge for you is to find one area in your life where you are feeding yourself the lie that your mistakes hold you back and silence that lie by reminding yourself of God's great love for you.

Written by Matthew, age 16, From Sanford, FL, USA