For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake:
Because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
—-1 Samuel 12:22 (King James Version)
Dearest Abba, Father, How awesome You are! Amazing is Your loving-kindness. We are not consumed because of Your infinite patience toward us giving us chance after chance to repent of our sinful and rebellious ways and acknowledge Your ownership over us. It’s comforting to remember Your promise that You will never forsake us because it pleased You to make us Your own. Help us not to take Your grace and mercy for granted. Yahweh, You are our Refuge when we are distressed. In the midst of troubles of this difficult thing called life, O Lord, help us to flee to the knowledge of Thy loving-kindness and tender mercy so that we may be sheltered until You make our troubles go away for Your name’s sake. Whatsoever this life may bring us, grant that it may never take from us the faith that You are our Father and that all things will work together for good bringing in a perfect end . Grant us Your light, that we may have an abundant life and let Your beauty be upon us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
