O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. – Psalm 30:2
Have you ever received the ultimate bad news from your mechanic? It can be disheartening, but some car problems are too extensive to warrant the cost of repair. It is estimated 12 million cars are scrapped each year in America, just not worth fixing. But here is good news, that scenario will never apply to your life!
Most people can look back over their days and see where they took a wrong turn or made a misguided decision. It can be tempting to consider those events as not part of God’s plan. While it is never God’s desire for you to sin, there is no sin that puts you outside of God’s love. It is hard to wrap your mind around it, but God uses everything… everything, in revealing Himself as the loving, forgiving, Savior that He is. He even used the first humans and their devastating choice to rebel against Him to set the stage for bringing His beautiful Son into the world.
What area of your life feels like it is too messed up to be part of God’s good plan? Listen to this promise in 1 Peter 5:10, “the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
It is not too late for you to experience God’s restoration in every part of your life, and it is not too late for the United States to receive God’s blessing once again. Pray governing officials will seek God’s healing for the nation and make decisions that steer the nation in that direction.
Today’s Verse: Psalm 30:2
O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Romans 6:12-19
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
