SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME

Today’s Text: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. (Psalm 23:6)

Today’s Thoughts: Today we’re focusing on just the first part of this text. Goodness and mercy are following us. Do you know what that means?! That means that we’d have a hard time trying to get away from them. That means that all we have to do is turn around and they’re ours. God wants us to return to Him, He wants us to turn around and accept His goodness and mercy. He hasn’t sent them to follow us for nothing. He loves us. He cares about us. He is offering His goodness and mercy to each one of us right now. Please turn around and accept them – they won’t stop following you. God’s goodness and mercy is always available, it will always be within reach.

Today’s Testimony: I’ve mentioned before that the Lord is my Tutor for my studies. He is so patient with me. I am a “professional” procrastinator but He always intervenes with my assignments and exams. He has been, and is working on me and my bad habits, but He has always been so merciful to me. He truly is so good, when I really don’t deserve it. He has never said, “I’m sorry child, but this time you’ll have to bear the consequences.” But I know that I do need to stop procrastinating so much, and so, as I said, the Lord and I are working on the problem.
Do you remember the two year modules that I mentioned before, and their rather complicated second assignments (Day 49)? I said that I’d share about the complications and God’s intervention with the other one at a later stage, and I’m going to share that now.
The other assignment had five tasks of which I had to do three. The first task was compulsory, and then I had to choose the other two. That was the first complication. One of the tasks required me to design a poster. I usually submit my assignments online, but if I chose the poster I had to either send my assignment via post or take it directly to UNISA. At first I thought that I wouldn’t do that task, but then the Lord and I started designing one in my mind for fun. I really liked our design, so I decided that I would choose that as one of my tasks after all.
My step-dad was going to take my assignment in to UNISA, and the night before, I sat filling out the assignment cover that had to go with my assignment. I wasn’t used to filling one in because it isn’t necessary when submitting online. Once I’d filled in all my details, I saw a spot that said, “Affix your student number barcode here”. I couldn’t think what they were talking about, and decided to go to bed and ask my sister in the morning.
When I asked her she said, “O, that’s those barcode stickers that UNISA gave you.” I had never used them, and had no idea where I’d put them. I had completely forgotten all about the sheet of stickers. My step-dad was going to have to leave for work soon, so I had a problem. I prayed!!!
I started looking, and then the Lord said to me, “Lindy, it’s in that box.” I looked a bit in that box, but thought, “This isn’t a box of papers, it won’t be in here.” I kept looking everywhere else, and the Lord kept saying, “Lindy, it’s in that box.” Finally, when I’d searched thoroughly everywhere else that I could think of, I decided to take a good look in that box. …I didn’t need to look very far at all, it was right near the top.
God is so good and so merciful!!! He always intervenes for me, even though I do have a terrible procrastination problem. But like I said, “He’s working on me.” But in the meantime – He is so patient! And then on top of that, He didn’t give up on me when I wasn’t listening to His voice telling me where those stickers were. My God is so merciful and so good! Is He your God too?

Today’s Task: Turn around and accept God’s goodness and mercy. He is truly so good and so merciful. No matter what you’ve done, if you return to Him, His arms are open; He is more than willing to forgive you. Please don’t disappoint Him, He wants to spend eternity with you. He loves you so much. Please turn to Him today.

Today’s Thanks: O Lord I thank You that You never give up on us. I thank You that Your goodness and mercy follow us. Please help us to fully surrender to You. We need You. I thank You for Your patience with us. I thank You that You love us so much. I praise You and thank You in Christ’s name, Amen.