we are loved by God.

Went to the beach this am with mom :)  So enjoyable.  I am still reading The Good and Beautiful God and today I read about how we always say we are still sinners.  While we are still sinners, Christ dwells within us as sinners!  He paid the price for us and we shouldn't sit around and concentrate on how awful we are.  The book brought up the point, how can we produce God-centered holiness if we think of ourselves as self-centered sinners?  But sin is still in us and always will be, even though we were born again we still live in our old sinful bodies.  Also today a man and kid walked up to me and my mom asking for water because they were dropped off by someone and then his phone died.  I liked the opportunity to give him ice water but then he asked to charge his phone..which I was leery to do because that would mean him coming into the house.  He also made it so obvious that he wanted money..so it kinda felt like a set up.  But it felt nice to help someone in need..just wish I could have talked about God with him!