I often wonder about passages like this one. Why is our God the way he is? I know everyone asks that question. I know everyone wonders why God allows things to happen etc...But what I understand the least about God is grace. Why is he so willing to forgive? If I wronged someone as often as I wronged God, I would be an enemy, not a friend. This idea of forgivness can literally make me ill. My issue is not believing he forgives as much as he says. I understand chapter 103 to be true and clear that God wipes all the blemishes in my life away and that he forgets as soon as he forgives. I have to believe that because it is part of the glue that holds our relationship with Christ solid. But what I can't understand, what I can't get out of my head, is that time after time, he continues to forgive. What keeps him from giving up on me? What kind of love must that be? And is that love attainable in my own life as I show Christ to others?
I pray for an understanding of grace. I pray that I better appreciate it and better extend it to others.
Tomorrow is Day 23, Luke 6.
God Bless,
Nick
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