“If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things” (1 John 3:20 NKJV). When you feel unforgiven, evict the feelings. Emotions don’t get a vote. God’s Word holds rank over self-criticism and self-doubt.
Satan loves to dump buckets of diminishment and discouragement on us. He taunts us with the lie that we’ll never overcome our bad habits and our addictions. He specializes in telling us what we’ll never do.
But then God comes along, offering freedom with an even more powerful word: nevertheless. “Didn’t read the Bible until retirement age, nevertheless he came to a deep and abiding faith.” We all need a nevertheless. And God has plenty to go around.
