God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.

-Micah 7:18-20

Time and time again I can testify to how God has saved me from the depths of my sin, how God has showed me grace unending. I feel like I am Israel, constantly turning my face from God’s grace and finding pleasure in the mundane and meaningless. C.S. Lewis puts it best, we are far too easily pleased:

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

However, I have much to be joyful for and much to be happy about, because time and again God extends grace. God keeps me. God sustains me. Praise God, for his steadfast love endureth forever.

Do you praise God enough for grace undeserved?