I really love my Savior and His father...and I'm not trying to sound cheesy or anything but i was just reflecting on my blog name... Hope, Be Undismayed...and i was thinking about the Jars of Clay song that inspired it and i thought to myself "Why did i choose that?"
As many of you know their are days when I'm kind of "hopeless, and very dismayed." so I wondered why did i pick that for a name. I guess i wanted to remind myself on a regular bases of God's faithfulness in my life.
I've been reading 1 Samuel lately, and the thing that gets me time and time again is even though the people of Israel are being blatantly disobedient God in his faithfulness still delivers them from their enemies.
The people ask Samuel to give them a king and Samuel says "why do you ask for such an Evil thing when your God should be your king." and Samuel goes and prays...a chapter or two later God reveals to Samuel that Saul will be the people's king...for HE has chosen Saul to deliver them from the Philistines.
That just blew my mind away...the people are being faithless and disobedient and God still chooses to be faithful to them.
How many times have i been faithless and God has still chosen to be faithful to me?
God's faithfulness does not depend on us...he will always be faithful even when we are not. But wow, that faithfulness he gives to me on a daily bases sure makes me want to be faithful more to him.
I think of all that He has done in my life, the good things he allowed, the not so great things he allowed but turned out to be good for me, and I think "Wow...how can i not return and love him?"
I am overwhelmed by His love and grace today.
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