Pui.

"And even though we keep hearing and even preaching the gospel that we are all sinners and no one can please God except by His grace, we refuse to believe it for ourselves. We can't let go of the thought that we are just a little bit better than common, ordinary sinners -- that we don't need this grace quite as badly as the next guy. It's actually a case of very bad amnesia: we are constantly trying to prove ourselves worthy of being Christians when we forgot what a Christian was in the first place -- someone unworthy to be one were it not for the grace of God."

Oh so true. We are less than dust and yet He died for us. For God so loved the world.

I've heard people talk about "bad people", telling others to steer clear of them. They're unclean, they're blackened and contagious. Don't go near them or it'll catch on, rub off on you. Don't trouble yourself with people who do drugs or get drunk, they're "not like us". Uhm, hello. No basis of comparison here. Look at yourself. Do you think you're good enough? You think youre so pure? What gives anyone the right to judge what is right and wrong when all have sinned? Who says we cant have friends that are sinners? Youre a sinner yourself and you'd be on your way to hell if not for the grace of God. If Jesus decided that we were too worthless to die for we're all dead. Jesus had friends who were terrible sinners, and if a perfect man could befriend people as impure as that, what more us?

He died for all of them. PLUS you. So dont get complacent.