One of the things that has attacked many people’s relationships with God is guilt/shame or an inch of condemnation for having not done the right thing.
For example, say you’re meant to fast 14 days as an instruction, but on several days, things went south, and you either forgot, or broke the fast pretty much early.
According to how much you know, you might tend to feel bad about it than good. Other days, you’ll just starve, as work gets you too preoccupied, that before you know it, it is 7pm already. You then go to bed dissatisfied.
Well, the Lord has taught me on such occasions, to say ‘it is well’, and to know that His mercies are new every morning. There is a reason why this statement was over mentioned in the old testament!
1 Chronicles 16:34 says, ‘O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.’ David over mentioned the latter part of this sentence! Why? He always fell short…
Imagine; he orchestrated the killing of a man so loyal to him, having snatched his wife first! Oh how the devil must have condemned him even if men didn’t know about it.
How could David face God again with such weighty sin! How could Moses accept to serve Him having killed a whole Egyptian & buried him in the desert? These men understood God’s mercy.
No sin was big enough to separate them from the love of God. He has promised as well, that our sin He THREW in the sea of forgetfulness. If we keep remembering it, it will only affect our side of the relationship and not God’s.
We have to understand that God has seen thousands of His faithful men sin. In fact He has seen millions. You’re not the first! You’re not the last! Quit punishing yourself with the whip of condemnation or trying to convince God with self pity.
Embrace His mercy! It is so vast it can overlook an entire nation’s sin. Oh how God’s love constrains Him. He loved you so much He had to live like you (exiled from His own celestial majesty) for 33 years, and die for you, so that the things that would try to hinder your flourishing relationship with Him could be dealt with prior.
What He paid for can never compare nor equate to the microscopic hindrances or past actions that you have done. Like David, you have to shake it off and encourage yourself in Him. Like Moses, you have to settle…& know that you are still His number one choice to set His people free!
Missed fasting? Missed praying? Missed reading His word? Well, it is a new day today, and you’re alive! His mercies of yesterday are refined. If they were sufficient for David’s infidelity yesterday, today’s are entirely brand new, to deal with the murdering of Uzziah.
Mercy means ‘forbearance to allow harm to another’, forgiveness and compassion, a blessing…
God alone has the right to judge any man’s soul. His mercy being new is like a judge pardoning and finding a man not guilty yet having done the crime he was brought to court for! I am sure David saw Himself like this, several times. If he was in our day, the judge would have said, “you again?”
Being told ‘not guilty’ yet you very well know you are hits different. If the God who wields authority to define what is wrong or right says you’re not guilty, then you’re not. This is sheer goodness & mercy. It instead leads men to more repentance.
David was the one that was forgiven 60000 denarii (close to 87000 US dollars) He was forgiven so many times, that is why the man who was forgiven only 100 denarii would be grateful but not as much as David (just like the woman who washed Jesus with her hair)
Remind yourself each morning that His mercies are new. The ones God avails for the things you feel you may not perform well today (even if it isn’t intentional) are very different, newer, bigger and not to be compared for those that He needed for your yesterday! He’s made up His mind not to let anything come in between you and Him!
What love! What determination!
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Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins
Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea. (Some sources say ‘sea of forgetfulness’)
Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Lamentations 3:22-23 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
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