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When our expectations go unmet, or are gone against, anger and indignation are our usual responses. We lash out, we think about retaliating, we fly into fits of fury and take it out on those whom fail us.
How about our long-suffering God? Who watched (and still is watching) His people constantly sin and fall short of His glory and holiness all throughout history. Yet He smites not. He loves, He disciplines in love, He stooped to earth to serve us. And He, in flesh, died for us—whilst praying, Father, forgive.
How, then, should we reflect our Father's love? How, then, should we be imitators of Christ? How, then, should we walk in the Spirit?
How will they know that we are His disciples?
O for us to show agape love, grace and mercy; for we have received the very same.
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” – Exodus 34: 6-7 (ESV)
How about our long-suffering God? Who watched (and still is watching) His people constantly sin and fall short of His glory and holiness all throughout history. Yet He smites not. He loves, He disciplines in love, He stooped to earth to serve us. And He, in flesh, died for us—whilst praying, Father, forgive.
How, then, should we reflect our Father's love? How, then, should we be imitators of Christ? How, then, should we walk in the Spirit?
How will they know that we are His disciples?
O for us to show agape love, grace and mercy; for we have received the very same.
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” – Exodus 34: 6-7 (ESV)
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