Grace

A few years ago an incident occurred after we had recently moved into our house here in Florida. I had just woken up and was exiting my room. My brother hurried past my doorway and I suppose (since this was some time ago and the exact details escape me) that his attitude communicated something was amiss. Following him, came my mother who also was frustrated. When I asked what was the matter, I received the reply from my mom that my brother had "done something" already that morning which was wrong.

Hoping not to add to the tense atmosphere, I hastly retreated to my room. There I mused as I made my bed how Scripture promises God's "mercies are new every morning" (Lamentations 3:22-24). Yet this very morning as I had barely stepped from my bed, tension, frustration and disobedience seemed to have marred our day's beginnings. "What are we to do, Lord, when we seem to have blown it right away?"I asked. What is to be done when the promise of new mercies is swept aside by our own sin?

Do you know what He said? "My grace is sufficient for thee" (2 Corinthians 2:19). Even though we may have seem to gotten off on the wrong foot or up on the wrong side of the bed, God is faithful and will supply all our needs. What a loving Father!

--HM