I am grateful today that
CONSTANCY is a part of God's makeup. He is constant in his forgiveness, His grace, His mercy and His compassion.
Everyday He presents us with brand new opportunities to live clean lives that are reflective of Him. When we mess up, He offers His forgiveness in a heart beat and wipes our slates clean. You know that's the good thing about slates, they can be erased. Our bad habits, our negative thoughts, our sinful disgusting actions, all of them can be erased as if they had never been. I am a living testimony of God's mercy. When I barefacedly sin against God, he sends His Holy Spirit to convict my consicence and offer me restoration. I join in saying with Jeremiah that God's mercy are indeed new every morning.
Lamentations 3:21-23
New Living Translation (NLT)
21 Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
22 The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease.
23 Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
Eugene Peterson captures it beatifully in his paraphrase The Message
Here's his take on the same passage (verses 19-24)
Lamentations 3:21-23
The Message (MSG)
19-21I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness,
the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed.
I remember it all—oh, how well I remember—
the feeling of hitting the bottom.
But there's one other thing I remember,
and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:
22-24God's loyal love couldn't have run out,
his merciful love couldn't have dried up.
They're created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He's all I've got left.
Thank you God for rescuing me. It's not just a one time thing, everyday I wake, He resuces me from myself when I would succumb to the temptations of the Devil and for that, I am eternally grateful.
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