He loves us anyway.

I was reading a blog today and I found this line that I thought was really deep: "Just because an unhealthy enticement comes to your mind . . . that doesn’t make you a bad person. It is what you do with your thoughts that will determine what road you will take" (The Moments We Stand "The Tempting Road"). I love this! We are all tempted with things that are unhealthy–unhealthy things to say, unhealthy things to do–but it is what we do with them that makes us who we are. If you do not act on them, you are stronger than Satan, and you have won that battle. If you did, however, try again; you can win the next one. Repent, and ask Heavenly Father for forgiveness, commit to not doing it again, and the next time that temptation comes along, kick it right out of the ball park, far away from you. Tell it, "You have no power over me!", just like Sarah from Labyrinth tells Jareth. We should always be trying to be a better person, but we are people, too, and we make mistakes, and that is okay. We are imperfect people trying to become perfect, and we make mistakes. God does not expect us to be perfect people trying to become a better perfect. He knows we are imperfect people trying to become perfect, and develop Christlike qualities, but He knows it will take us some time; we are slow learners. But He loves us anyway. Just remember that: He knows we are imperfect, slow learners, but He loves us anyway.