God never fails me. People – they fail me. But God never does.
This week, I discovered a secret that someone dear to me had been keeping. The secret broke my trust in them and it will take a minute to get it back. I think the part that bothers me the most about it, is that I had no idea. Usually, I am a little more in tune with deception and secrets, but this time I was blindsided. This isn’t just a lesson about God never failing me. He is with me through this and through the making-up part too. God provided His Son to die for my sins and shortcomings, and man do I have those!
In Joshua 21:45 we are reminded that “Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to the house of Israel failed; everyone was fulfilled.” (Joshua 21:45 NIV). God provided for the Israelites for forty years in the wilderness and not once did He not fulfill a promise. Today I rest in that fact. His Word is alive and living and His promises are good.
We fail each other, and I know I’ve let people down before. But I know that the quicker I forgive this person and start moving toward reconciliation – even though I don’t feel like doing that at all – the quicker I’m doing what God is calling me to do. Our emotions sometimes get in the way of what God calls us to do, Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:3-5, “‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.’” (Matthew 7:3-5 NIV).
Today I am putting my feelings aside, and forgiving this person. I forgive you _____. Will you join me in forgiving whomever it is that has wronged you? I know our feelings may not want to, but God calls us to and He will provide the healing (sometimes it’s not immediate but takes time). God is good and He will heal us.
