In our neck of the woods, indeed throughout most of eastern Oregon, we have overcast skies.  Sun is peaking through, but just enough to remind us it is still up there.

Carla and I like to watch the hummingbirds and they feed and fly around, they can be aggressive to each other as well as humans, size doesn’t seem to matter.  However, we have a couple of bees that have discovered one of the feeders and there is a challenge between these two small creations as to which is going to have the dominance of that feeder.  Thus far it seems to be a draw, one time the birds back down, next the bees.

Don’t measure the fight by the size of the animal, but by the heart.  Although I have to admit, I would rather be attacked by one of them than a Grizzly Bear.

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1 John 2:1  KJV  “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”

We are imperfect, even though we turn our lives over to God in thanksgiving for the Grace He has bestowed upon us by the sacrifice of His Son which makes us perfect, we all too often listen to satan’s lies and temptations, and falter in our dedication to Him, thus loosing that perfection in Him.

Jesus lived among the people.  While both He and God know our frailties, He also experienced it as He preached and consoled those that came to Him.

He saw people fall back, Peter being one of the most prominent, but He also assured them, and by His teachings and love, us, that He would still forgive us for those transactions if we come to Him with an honest heart.

The only perfect man that walked this earth was Jesus.  Even the most pious among us cannot begin to make that claim.

All we can do is strive to do our best with the assistance and love of the Holy Spirit as He teaches, guides and directs us.

It is not a complicated process as some would try to make out, and as satan supports and propagates thus making people feel they can never, again, reach out to God. 

It is simply realizing we have sinned against Him and genuinely confess that sin(s) to Him being truly sorry for them.

If He tells us to forgive 70 times 7, (as an example given to the question how often should we forgive) then He is going to do the same thing, and more, Himself. 

He looks at our heart, not our numbers, and sees the true us as either being repentant, or just acting like we are, and bases His forgiveness or not, on the condition of our heart.

Every person alive has weaknesses.  Satan knows every one of them and will do all he can to tweak them, and when we listen we fail God – and while satan may say there is no hope for us ever again, God says:  “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”

I am thankful that He used John to give us that assurance.

Later, Art (-: