{"id":39218,"date":"2026-02-11T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39218"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:28:22","slug":"260212-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260212-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Failing God"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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\u201cA person can request forgiveness only so many times,\u201d contends our common sense. If the devil can convince us that God\u2019s grace has limited funds, we\u2019ll draw the logical conclusion. The account is empty. No access to God.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake courage, son; your sins are forgiven.\u201d Jesus spoke these words to a paraplegic as recorded in Matthew 9:2. Jesus was thinking about our deepest problem\u2014sin. He was considering our deepest fear\u2014the fear of failing God. God keeps no list of our wrongs. His love casts out fear because he casts out sin. 1 John 3:20 says, “If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things<\/strong>\u201d (NKJV).<\/p>\n

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Read more\u00a0Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cA person can request forgiveness only so many times,\u201d contends our common sense. If the devil can convince us that God\u2019s grace has limited funds, we\u2019ll draw the logical conclusion. The account is empty. No access to God.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake courage, son; your sins are forgiven.\u201d Jesus spoke these words to a paraplegic as recorded in Matthew 9:2.\u00a0Jesus was thinking about our deepest problem\u2014sin. He was considering our deepest fear\u2014the fear of failing God.\u00a0God keeps no list of our wrongs. His love casts out fear because he casts out sin. 1 John 3:20 says,\u201cIf our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things\u201d (NKJV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39224,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218\/revisions\/39224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}