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Remember Not

God does not forget. The Biblical idea of God remembering is that He takes action and intervenes in a situation. It reflects His movement. So even as we plead with God to remember us favorably, it occurred to me in reading Psalm 25 that the opposite is also true. David cries out for God not…

For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. Psalm 26:3 David sings of God’s steadfast love, or chesed. Some translations say unfailing love, lovingkindness, mercy or grace. The word has connotations of benevolence and is something that can’t be reciprocated. It also hints at the idea of overflowing boundaries. It is love…

I have seen what they do – but I will heal them anyway. Isaiah 57:18 The people of Israel are rebelling and Isaiah is recounting their sins. And then the unfathomable – God is still going to be at work among them. He has made a promise and will keep it - anyway. Even though…

It seems to me that in the fullness of life there are great paradoxes. There is truth that I know in my heart, but yet cannot understand. God has foreordained me to be His child, but it is fully my choice. I am created in His image and yet formed from the dust. I am…

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