Today is Monday, June 30th, 2008; Karen's Korner #1346
Nothing like the Bible to give people a pep-talk for the day!
From Ephesian 2:1 - 10 (Living Bible, in part):
"Once you were under God's curse, doomed forever for your sins. You went along with the crowd and were just like all the others, full of sin......obeying Satan.......We started out bad, being born with evil natures, and were under God's anger just like everyone else.
"But God is so rich in mercy; he loved us so much that even though we were spiritually dead and doomed by our sins, he gave us back our lives again when he raised Christ from the dead--only by his undeserved favor have we ever been saved--and lifted us up from the grave into glory along with Christ, where we sit with him in the heavenly realms--all because of what Christ Jesus did. And now God can always point to us as examples of how very, very rich his kindness is, as shown in all he has done for us through Jesus Christ.
"Because of his kindness you have been saved through trusting Christ. And even trusting is not of yourselves; it too is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good we have done, so none of us can take any credit for it. It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others."
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