From yesterday's daily devontion from Liveprayer.com.. seemed appropriate

It never fails to amaze me how often this Devotion seems meant and written just for me!  God is soooo Awesome!  If you like this devotional you can get one sent to you daily, go to Liveprayer.com and sign-up. 

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When we fail God.  Today's Devotional is a powerful word about something we
all do every day, fail God.  Even though it is the goal of every follower of
Christ to live our lives perfectly as He did, the Bible tells us that we all
sin and fall short of God's glory.  It also says that if we say we don't sin
we are a liar.  So accepting the fact that we all fail God at times, I want
to focus today on how we respond when we fail.  Listen to me closely, you
will never be able to live this life victoriously until you learn the proper
response when you fail God.

The most important thing you can do when you fail is to accept
responsibility for your actions.  We are masters at blaming others when we
fail.  As I share with you often, man has not really changed since the
Garden of Eden.  When Adam failed, he blamed Eve.  When Eve was confronted
with her failure by God, she blamed the serpent.  Admitting you were wrong,
accepting responsibility for what you did is the most important thing you
can do when you fail.  When you take responsibility for your failure, you
become sorry for letting God down and go to Him with a broken and contrite
heart asking for forgiveness.

None of us are immune from sin.  That is why God gives us His special
promise in 1 John 1:9.  It tells us if we will confess our sins, He will
forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  We must trust His Word,
know He has forgiven us, and move on to fulfill our purpose of serving and
glorifying God with our lives.  You see, we are no good to God when we allow
our sin to strangle us, to paralyze us.  The enemy loves to use our
sin against us, to hold it over our head.  But the Bible says that when God
forgives us, He not only forgives, but forgets.  If God forgets, then we
need to as well so that we can move forward and live victorious, productive
lives for the Kingdom.

Jesus tells us in John 8:44 that satan is a liar, that he is the father of
lies.  When he speaks, he speaks his native language, LYING.  One of the
lies of the enemy is to use your sin against you, to tell you that you are
no good.  He will tell you that you are not worthy of God's love and grace.
Let me share this with you, on our own we are not worthy, but  because of
Christ WE BECOME WORTHY!  You see, when you
know Christ as your Savior it is not your righteousness that God sees, but
it is the righteousness of Christ.

We try our best each day to live like Jesus.  We are all faced with the
temptations of this
world.  We are all faced with the traps the enemy lays for us.  From time to
time we ALL fall into sin.  How we respond to our sin is critical.  Running
from God is a natural response, but the wrong one.  We quit reading the
Word, quit praying, quit going to church, which makes us an even bigger
target for the enemy.  Instead, we must run TO God, accept responsibility
for our actions and have the guts to say, "I sinned."

I love you and care about you so much.  The point I want you to understand
today is not if we sin, but when we sin, what our response must be.  I will
pray for you today that when you fail, you will accept responsibility for
your sins and ask God for forgiveness,  stand on His precious promise in 1
John 1:9 and move forward with your life.  God has much for you to do.  He
has a great plan for your life.  Let me assure you today that He loves you.
Whatever you may have done doesn't change that.  Our failure DOES NOT change
God's love for us!