We have ALL fallen short, both before and after becoming a Christian. Our failures and/or, our circumstances, do not dictate who we are in Christ. Our identity with Christ, and our continuing Faith, that he alone can change us, and renew us, and forgive us, make us a child of God. Jesus paid our debts, that we, not might, but may LIVE. Let us never think we are something, in and of ourselves, but that we are everything, in Christ Jesus.

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Being labeled a cheater was especially difficult for someone who was known for being one of Major League Baseball’s most outspoken Christian athletes. One of Pettitte’s favorite scriptures at the time, in fact, was one that spoke to his desire to live above reproach and with the utmost integrity as a representative of Jesus:

”Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.“

1 Peter 4:11 NASB1995