There's one particularly moving passage in Psalm 80 wherein God is
beseeched, "O LORD God Almighty, how long will your anger smolder
against the
prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears, you
have made them drink tears by the bowlful" (Psalm 80: 4-5). It's hard
not to feel pathos for beleaguered Israel with a petition like that.
And yet we know that Israel did this to themselves. Invariably, no
matter how many times God redeems them, they find a way to turn away
from Him once again. It is a testament to God's surpassing mercy, faithfulness, and grace that He continues to seek us even when we would shun Him.
"We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19)
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