God's Wonderful Mercy
As I look back over my life, I can see so many times that God had to rescue me because I had gotten away from Him and done the wrong thing. Sometimes, I just did something stupid. At other times, I did things that I knew were wrong. However, in any case when I called out to God and returned to Him, He had mercy upon me and received me back into a close relationship with Him. Oh, where would I be without the wonderful mercy of God? As we read through the Old Testament and now the book of Nehemiah, we see this truth over and over again with God's people. (Nehemiah 9:28) As soon as they were at peace, they would return to committing evil in God's sight, and He would allow their enemies to conquer them. Then, whenever they turned back to God for help, He listened from heaven, and in His wonderful mercy, He rescued them. He did this many times. I pray we can see a pattern here and learn how to stay faithful to God. When times are good, we tend to relax spiritually, We do not pray as...