Scripture is filled with examples of the challenges that frail creatures of dust face as they attempt to meet the exacting standards of their Creator. It is impossible. God is eternal. Our lives are like a vapor. God is all-powerful. We are weak. God keeps His purposes for thousands of years. We can fail to stick with a commitment for even a week. God is absolutely holy. We are inherently sinful.<\/p>\n
What is miraculous is that almighty God chooses to work with humanity even when it constantly falls short of its noble calling. While God would be justified in obliterating His sin-plagued creatures, He chooses instead to continually forgive them and to draw them back to himself. God, more than anyone else, knows how frail we are.<\/p>\n
Mankind likes to portray itself as a magnificent race, rivaling the gods of Olympus. People imagine themselves to be the masters of the earth and the determiners of their own destiny. But God knows better. Sin has so crippled and weakened us that we find ourselves repeatedly failing and falling short. How marvelous to know that our Creator knows, and loves us anyway. In thousands of years He has refused to give up on His creatures. And, neither will He forsake you, even when you are at your worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath; for He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. Psalm 78:38-39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}