As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.—Psalm 103:13-14
For
some of us last year was one in which we did not acquit ourselves very
nobly as Christians, considering the infinite power available to us
through the indwelling Spirit. But through the goodness of God we may go
to school to our failures. The man of illuminated mind will learn from
his mistakes, yes even from his sins. If his heart is trusting and
penitent, he can be a better man next year for last year's fault-but let
him not return again to folly. Repentance should be radical and
thorough, and the best repentance for a wrong act, as Fenelon said, is
not to do it again....
Brother Lawrence expressed the highest
moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at
once to God and said, "O Lord, this is what You may expect of me if You
leave me to myself." He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God and gave
himself no further concern about the matter. The Warfare of the Spirit, pp. 102-104
"Oh
Lord, some of us have graduate degrees from this school! Help us to
learn well from our failures, to accept Christ's forgiveness, and to
move on. Give victory for today, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen."
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