• Psalm 51:10 ESV
  Create in me a clean heart, O God,
      and renew a right^[a] spirit within me.
• Psalm 139:23-24 ESV
  Search me, O God, and know my heart!
      Try me and know my thoughts!^{[a]
  24} And see if there be any grievous way in me,
      and lead me in the way everlasting!
• Ezekiel 36:26 ESV
  And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• Romans 12:2 ESV
   Do not be conformed to this world,^[a] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
• 1 Corinthians  6:11 ESV
  And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV
  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,^[a] are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.^[b] For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
• Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV
  to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
• Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV
  Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. ² And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
• Philippians 1:6 ESV
  And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
• Colossians 1:10 ESV
  So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
• Colossians 3:10 ESV
  and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
• 1 John 3:2-3 ESV
  Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears^[a] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Feeling like you need to do enough or be enough to attain perfection, to be holy, to earn God’s love?  Here’s the truth:

God’s love covers us …and cleanses us. Then, in His compassion, He transforms us.  He’s big enough and gracious enough to tackle our mess until the day He decides that construction is complete and He takes us home. So often, where God is taking us is less about our destination and more about our journey of becoming like Jesus.  God is more interested in our character than our accomplishments anyway (Anywhere Faith).

Want to hear more about how God continues to work in us to build our faith and help us follow
Him anywhere?  My new book, Anywhere Faith, releases TODAY!

And, in other big news, I drew the winning number from the giveaway  and the winner is Tina Watkins!!!  Congratulations, Tina!