Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
What of Today’s Verse…
God is faithful and his covenant is a covenant of love. He will not forsake us and will treat us better than we deserve just as a loving parent treats a rebellious child better than he or she deserves. But our hearts must be tuned to honour God as God, not as just a good luck charm or a weekly guest into our otherwise busy lives. What we do must be done in awareness that it is done before and for him!
Let us Pray:
Faithful God, thank you for loving me so sacrificially and steadfastly. Thank you for the way you preserved your promises to the Israelites and brought Jesus just as you promised. I trust your promise to send him back to bring me home to you. Please receive the deeds and words of this day as my thanks to you for your covenant of love with me and those I love. Through Jesus, your gift of love, I pray. Amen.
Words of Wisdom
Grace…
Divine love heals me and inspires me to greater understanding and peace.
Paul and Silas of the New Testament knew the truth of their freedom in God even while imprisoned. When they were in prayer, an earthquake suddenly opened the jail doors, but they did not rush out. They stayed, believing that through the grace of God they would be free. And they were, that very day.
As with the men in the story, I have the freedom that the grace of God brings me wherever I am, whatever the circumstances. God’s grace is love that guides me and provides me with all that I ever need.
God’s grace is love that is continually flowing through me, healing me at depth and inspiring me to greater understanding and peace. I am an expression of the love of God in the world.
“And now I commend you to God and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified.”-Acts 20:32
