God's Mercy and Love

David’s philosophy of life and one we can embrace, is to live by the help of God, not by our wits. We live according to “Your ways”, “Your truth” (verses 4-5), wise to know the right thing in life situations the Bible doesn’t speak to directly. We learn to be humble (verse 9) and aware of our sins and limitations (verse 11). And so we lean on “Your mercy and love” (verse 6) “all the day long” (verse 5).

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REFLECTION

Trust and Truth, Dynamic Duo

by Judy Webb

In you, Lord my God,
    I put my trust. Psalm 25:1

I was so excited to see the text I was assigned to write on this day. It was just what I needed this week. The hope that comes to my heart when I read this Psalm fills my spirit with a desire to see tomorrow unfold. It is such fun to fully trust in God. Each year I pray for God to give me a word (from His Word), to draw into my spirit. A word that will have spiritual meaning as well as encouraging value as I move into the new year.

This time, however, there were two words that kept rising to the surface, making it difficult to choose. From past experience, I know God doesn’t do anything just for the sake of doing it. He is very deliberate when leading me to that special word and the scripture to support it. The two words were: trust and truth. I settled on trust and the verses from Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.”

I imagine you can also see the value of the word truth. For this year has been peppered with untruths, lies and misinterpretations. Often, when feeling lost in our new masked, distanced, and political world, I feared truth might be lost. Then I remembered the only place truth can be found, so I opened my Bible and began to read.

Now, more than ever before (for me), it is imperative I trust God. I must trust that He is Truth. He is the only Truth. It is clear to me now why trust and truth were both vying to be my word for 2020. As I move further into this year, I understand it is my trust in Him, my trust that truth will be found in His Word, that calms my spirit and assures my heart. During this year filled with deceit, and evil, truth still rises to the surface.

“Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long.” Psalm 25:4-5

UALC CAMPAIGN OF PRAYER - WEDNESDAY

JUSTICE - Stir up the power of your Holy Spirit to create reconciliation and justice where we cannot. We are enmeshed in the sin and hurt and futility of a fallen world. But you, O God, have raised Jesus from the dead and poured out the Spirit of your new creation. Reconcile us to one another across the divides we alone cannot cross, in the justice and wholeness only you can create.