Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
    for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness

Lamentations 3:22-23

Many things happen in this old world we live in. Some of those are good things, some are not so good, while others are just plain ugly. We who are followers of the Lord Jesus are well aware of the fact that in the end, God will have the last word on every question. People who had the foresight to accept God’s offer of grace, who kept the faith, will spend eternity with the Lord. Those who chose to do evil, will go to a very different reward.

This is not to say that our God is in any way a transactional God, for in reality, He is entirely relational. He desires a relationship, and He loves all of us, even those who have not yet come to faith in Him. He loves all of us so very much that He sent His Son to die for all of us. As if that were not enough love, He loves us so much that He will respect our decision not to accept His love, and that is some pretty serious, if heartbreaking, love.

As we go thorough our lives, we will inevitably fall short in thought, word, or deed, since unlike our Lord, none of us is perfect. Happily, our God is not a “gotya” God, for as I mentioned, He is relational, not transactional in His nature. His love endures, and His blood is sufficient, and if we will acknowledge our sin, He is faithful to forgive: His compassion will never fail.

Things may not always go just the way we want them to go, we make mistakes and miscalculations; sometimes we just don’t understand thigs. Sometimes we just mess things up. Through everything, God’s faithfulness endures, and for me at least, it is comforting to remember that.