Bless the Lord

God's faithfulness truly knows no limits. He is always the same, even as people change throughout their lives or throughout history. God has never changed. The same God who was with Adam is with me. The same God that was faithful to the Israelites in the desert will be faithful to me, his adopted child. 

My life is fading. I will return to dust and eventually no one will remember me on earth. I think that's why non-believers desire so much to make a legacy. They somehow want their lives to be eternal, but without God nothing is. 

The best part of Psalm 103 is about God's forgiveness. As far as the east is from the west so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Infinite distance. That means that they are gone. He doesn't remember what we've done wrong, but instead he remembers how much he loved us. To prove his faithfulness God writes about his plan for redemption long before Jesus was born. Or even his great, great grandparents. Before anyone ever imagined what the Messiah would be like, God was talking about him. He's in Job. Job lived before Abraham. Israel as a nation was just a dream and God had already predicted he would save them. Talk about an unchanging and faithful God. He knew every single act of disobedience. He knew Israel would struggle to ever truly follow him, but he had a plan to save them. And to save the world. 

Never forget that salvation is first for the Jew and then for the Gentile. Never forget that Israel is God's chosen people. Not necessarily the nation state that exists now but the Jewish people. They are the firstborn. They have the birthright. We are just adopted kids. No less loved or valued, but without the Jews, we have no salvation. But without knowledge of who the Messiah is, neither do the Jews. 

Oh Lord, that I would have that sense of urgency to share the Gospel. That it would be my first thought and what I want to speak of the most. I pray I would be ever thinking of your Kingdom and not my own. I pray I would see with your eyes. That my heart would break for what breaks your heart. I pray that I would love others enough to tell them about how you want to save them. I pray I would begin to put others before me. I am selfish. I am arrogant. I pray you would make me selfless. I pray you would make me humble. I pray you would make me wise. I pray you would make me like you. 

Amen! Amen! Amen!