"Your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing." - 2 Thessalonians 1:3b

Friday, July 5, 2013

Psalm 78-80

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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