His Mercy & Loving-kindness Is Active & Enduring

Reading:  Psalms 136 - 140
My Verse:  (138:8)  "The Lord will perfect that which concerns me;  Your mercy and loving-kindness endure forever - forsake not the works of your own hands."

This thought is echoed in that much loved verse in Philippians 1:6 "And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ, developing and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you."

Thank You, Lord, that Your mercy endures for all time - continuously - actively - lovingly!

I need only place myself before You.  You will correct my mind with its wrong thinking.  You will heal my soul because I was sinful from birth.  You will mend my character because like all that is on this fallen earth I am flawed.

I pray, Lord, that I will not be or become sanctimonious.  There are many unlovely Christians out there and sometimes it is hard  to know why they are unlovely because outwardly they "appear"  righteous.  Again I quote Tozer here as he puts this so well.  "The notorious unloveliness of many religious people can be explained in this way.  It might be a shock to some of us if we could know why we are disliked and why our  testimony is rejected so violently.  Could it be that we are guilty of a deep sinfulness of disposition that we just cannot keep hidden?  Arrogance,  lack of charity, fault-finding - and all this kept under careful restraint and disguised by a pious smile and synthetic good humor.  This sort of thing is felt rather than understood by those who touch us in everyday life.  They do not know why they cannot stand us, but we are sure that the reason is our exalted state of spirituality!  Perilous comfort.  Deep heart searching and prolonged repentance would be better."

Thank You, Lord, that You continue to correct, heal and mend me! I need only to stay in Your Word. "And all of us as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit." (II Cor. 3:18)

"Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart!  Try me and know my thoughts!  And see if
 there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."  (Psalm 139:23,24) I need always to be repentant of my sins.

Thank You for Your active and enduring mercy and loving-kindness!

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!