Good morning,
I woke up this morning and read the texts from M——. After everything that I just learned from Jesus about repenting, and his mercy to allow us to repent from our bad choices, her text to you hurt my heart. I truly understand something so much clearer now. I understand how much everything depends on his mercy, and it IS coupled with fear. How foolish for us to think we can hold a grudge or get a wrong attitude, and then come to (or not come to) praise God when we feel like it. What if we have already pressed God past the point He is willing to go beyond? That was what Jesus was telling me.
I have no power. It is only his mercy, and he is full of mercy, but Jesus is no fool. I have that in my foundation now. I understand it. I pray for M—-, that she has not pressed Jesus past the point of repenting. I pray for mercy for her. I pray for any of us who might think we can hold a grudge one more day or stay away one more day, that we might be showered with mercy and repentance before it’s too late.
I pray I never forget the fear I felt when I heard “The Damnation Song” on the CD and felt like the Lord may have already turned me away. That fear was a soul-saving fear.
Beth