You Can’t Mess This Up
Read The Daily:
“Nothing can separate us from God’s love—not life or death, angels or demons, the present or the future… nothing at all.” – Romans 8:38–39
Speaker: Jimmy Bailey
You ever feel like life is just a series of performance reviews? Like you’re constantly being measured—by your job, your family, your social feed? It can feel like you’ve got to keep it all together just to stay worthy of love. A lot of people feel that way about God too—like He’s just waiting for you to screw up. But what if that’s totally wrong?
This verse says that nothing—nothing—can separate you from the love of God. Not your doubts. Not your screw-ups. Not the stuff you regret. Not even the things you’re still hiding from everyone else. God’s love isn’t fragile. It doesn’t break when you do. It’s actually strongest in your mess.
We often grow up with a version of faith that feels heavy—with rules, pressure, and fear that one wrong move could separate us from God. Jimmy Bailey spoke honestly about that weight: the fear that grace could be undone by our next mistake. But the truth found in Romans is far more freeing. Nothing can separate us. Not your past, not your failure, not your doubts.
That verse is a reminder that the love of God is not conditional. It’s not withdrawn when you skip church, say the wrong thing, or even stumble hard. Jimmy reminded us that this kind of love is like a good father—consistent, deep, and unshakeable. His message was not just for adults wrestling with faith, but for every child who grows up wondering if they’re “doing enough.”
Today, rest in the assurance that God’s love isn’t earned—it’s given. You can stop striving and start receiving. Just like Jimmy tells his own kids, there’s nothing you can do to make God love you more, and nothing you can do to make Him love you less.
Prayer for the Day
God what are you showing me? What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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Read The New Testament In A Year
A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad. You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.” One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign to prove your authority.” But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. “The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here—but you refuse to repent. The queen of Sheba will also stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for she came from a distant land to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Now someone greater than Solomon is here—but you refuse to listen. “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.” As Jesus was speaking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. Someone told Jesus, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak to you.” Jesus asked, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!” Matthew 12:33-50
What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded. Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path. God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said, “I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.”Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God. Romans 9:30-33, 10:1-4