Good day dear friends.
Our text for today comes from Psalm 130: 1 Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help! 2 Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy. 3 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance? 4 As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped. 5 I pray to God - my life a prayer - and wait for what he'll say and do. 6 My life's on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning.7 O Israel, wait and watch for God - with God's arrival comes love, with God's arrival comes generous redemption. 8 No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin. (The Message)
The Bible is an honest book. No person in it is perfect except Jesus. The Bible is our story. In fact, we can insert our name into every place where it says Israel or where the story being told is exactly as we have found life to be. So it is in this Psalm that we find that sometimes our lives face some difficulty or because of some bad decisions we realize our sinfulness is causing us pain; and we cry out, as we should, to God. The Psalmist knows God and knows the habits of God, and one of these is to forgive us for our sinfulness. At times it may seem like it takes God a little longer than we'd like to answer our prayers for relief and forgiveness, but the psalmist says, wait and watch till morning, God's love will arrive in the form of generous redemption. The reality is that that has arrived in the person of Jesus Whose love has delivered us, as the psalmist predicted "from captivity to sin."
We have no need to continue to be unhappy about our lives or staying in circumstances in which we find ourselves; God has the power and the desire to set us free. All we have to do is ask. And if we have to "wait till morning," so be it.
PRAYER; Loving God, thank You for Jesus and the redemption that has come through Him. May freedom from sin and its consequences be mine and all who ask for it; in Christ Jesus I pray, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
