R-E-S-P-E-C-T

So often I make mistakes and beat myself up for it. I spend time wondering, "How can God use me when I'm a failure, a liar, lazy, or whatever!" Or I think and act like God can't use me because I haven't been perfect enough.
I was reading about King Abijah in my Bible, now the only important things about him are:
- he was king.
- he was evil in God's sight.
- he was David's great grandson.
"But despite that, out of respect for David, his God graciously gave him a lamp, a son to follow him and keep Jerusalem secure. For David had lived an exemplary life before God all his days, not going off on his own in willful defiance of God's clear directions (except for that time with Uriah the Hittite)."
1 Kings 15:4-5
David followed hard after God and sought to please Him, except ONCE. Wow! I'm sure David, being human, lived an imperfect life before God, but only one sin is remembered and in spite of that, God still honoured David 3 and 4 generations later. That's 120 to 150 yrs later!
So maybe I don't always have it together. I fall down, I sin. But I get back up, repent, and move forward again. God doesn't disqualify me because I sin! It only makes me realize how much more I NEED Him!
I hope that my life is as pleasing to God as David's was...I wanted to be respected by God too!