5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Loved as You Are | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 2, 2026
- Do you realize that grace,
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- The grace of god, is the opposite of karma.
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- We get what we don't deserve.
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- That's the kind of law, lord, that we serve.
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- The poor has grace upon us.
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- We are the only ones where our savior shed his blood for us.
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- So that we don't have to
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- Sacrifice our life to prove our loyalty to him.
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- Imagine
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- If a movie was made of your life and shown on television
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- For anyone who wanted to watch it.
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- How would you feel?
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- I don't mean a nice, cleaned up,
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- Edited version, but your whole story.
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- Not just the things you've done or not done, but the things
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- You thought about doing and then saying, well,
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- It's really not a sin because i didn't actually do it.
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- How would that make you feel
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- If suddenly everyone had access
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- To everything that was true about you?
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- That religious truth of the gospel is this.
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- God has seen your movie
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- And he loves you.
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- Think about that.
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- Everything.
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- All we've ever said and done.
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- And yet he loves us.
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- In his powerful book, the knowledge of the holy, a.w.
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- Tozer wrote,
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- What comes into our minds when we think about god
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- Is the most important thing about us.
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- Think about that.
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- What comes to your mind
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- When you think about god?
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- What comes to your mind?
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- Do you think maybe he's disappointed in you?
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- Do you think he wishes you'd do better?
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- Do you think he loves other people more than he loves you?
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- And do you think he disapproves of the people
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- You disapprove of?
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- Our understanding of
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- Not only the kindness and love of god,
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- But also the majesty and holiness of god
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- Will impact how we live and also how we treat others.
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- You know, we can view god as just a benevolent father who
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- Excuses all our bad behavior because he's so crazy about us.
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- Or we can view god as a harsh judge
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- Who's waiting at any moment to punish us because, well,
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- We've fallen and failed one more time.
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- But neither of those give us a proper
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- Understanding of the majesty of our god,
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- Who is loving and kind and pure and holy.
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- Beginning to understand how much we're loved right now
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- Is not an excuse to live any way we like,
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- But rather it's a call to live.
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- What the of the price that christ paid for our salvation
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- At the beginning of john's gospel.
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- This is how he describes christ.
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- The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
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- We have seen his glory, the glory of the one
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- And only son, who came from the father,
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- Full of grace and truth,
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- Full of grace and truth.
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- Seek grace alone tells us.
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- It doesn't matter how we live.
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- Because, well, we're left.
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- Truth alone tells us we'll never match up.
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- But grace and truth welcome us as we are right now.
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- But calls us up higher.
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- Because jesus is worth it.
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- The beauty of the gospel is that we're not called
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- To live in our own strength,
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- But through the power of the holy spirit living in us.
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- I remember a trip i took to, thailand.
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- I was working with a mission to rescue girls out of sex
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- Trafficking,
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- And i'd spent quite a lot of that day
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- Working on this one particular area.
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- Just the worst of the worst in terms of the conditions
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- These girls were living in.
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- Their shacks were built over a garbage dump,
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- And in the heat of the day.
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- And the stench, it was just it was awful.
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- And at one point,
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- I stepped
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- Outside of the little area
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- Just to kind of get a breath of fresh air.
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- But i noticed something
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- Interesting here was this devastating poverty.
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- And right beside it,
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- There was a brand new temple, a buddhist temple.
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- Beautiful gold domes.
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- And i asked my translator.
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- I said,
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- I want to
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- Talk to one of the priests
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- If they would be willing to talk to me.
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- And this was my question.
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- I said,
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- Do you ever consider taking
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- Some of the obvious wealth that you have, and sharing it
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- With those who are literally dying on your doorstep?
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- And his answer was very clear.
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- He said, oh, absolutely not.
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- The poor do not deserve our help.
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- If they take what little they have and give it to us,
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- Then perhaps they will be reincarnated into a better life
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- Next time. it's called karma.
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- Do you realize that grace, the grace of god, is the
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- Opposite of karma.
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- We get what we don't deserve.
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- That's the kind of law, lord, that we serve.
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- The poor has grace upon us.
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- We are the only ones where our savior shed his blood for us.
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- So that we don't have to
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- Sacrifice our life to prove our loyalty to him.
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- Our faith is one of the most remarkable
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- Things that we can spend the rest of our lives of.
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- We live to be 150 unpacking god's word.
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- I will only have scratched
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- The surface until we see him face to face.
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- But i want you to know today that his grace is enough for you
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- And that you are loved and you are welcomed.
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- And because of what jesus did, we are free to follow him and
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- Then to live eternally with him for the rest of our lives.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, i want to thank you for the sacrifice
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- That jesus was willing to make with our human minds
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- Will never be able to understand how much it cost you.
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- So all we can say is thank you.
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- Thank you for loving us in such extravagance.
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- Thank you for the grace that you showered upon us.
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- Thank you
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- That you took the place
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- That we deserve so that we can find our way home to you.
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- Thank you. in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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