Psalm 130:3-4 (NIVUK)
3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
One way in which God has been portrayed at times is as a wrathful God who needs placating or persuading somehow to love us, but this is not the God we see in Jesus, or indeed here. God is fundamentally loving and forgiving, that is who he is. Even the story of the Prodigal Son doesn’t go far enough in capturing this, there the father waits at the window hoping his wayward child would return, but the message of scripture is that God, in Christ, has come actively seeking us, longing to draw us back to him. What’s more, unlike the father who is ignorant of what his child is doing, the Father knows us completely, but this doesn’t change his attitude towards us one bit.
Thank you Father for your astonishing love. Thank you that it means we can come before you in prayer knowing that you accept us and listen to us. How can we respond, other than through seeking to give our lives in love in return.
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