They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
-Nehemiah 9:17
It's incomprehensible, this love You have. I turn away. I try and fail. I openly rebel. Yet your love still pursues. Still forgives.
We don't know forgiveness like this on earth. We hold grudges. We can't forget. We build up walls. Trust must be rebuilt. But not so with You.
Slow to anger. Abounding in steadfast love. Gracious. Merciful. Ready to forgive. God is.
"Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ."
ReplyDelete-Romans 5:20-21