Day 362 Bible Reading
Nehemiah 9: 17 (ESV)
“But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.”
I love this passage from Nehemiah 9. It makes me think
about all the times I have not listened to God or did wrong things or have not
obeyed his commandments. God has always been loving and ready to forgive me.
His patience with me seems infinite and he always tells me how much he loves
and is proud of me whenever I do something right. Even when I have felt
forsaken by God, I’ve come to learn that God has never forsaken men. He is there
to always answer my prayers and talk to me about what I have done wrong. God
speaks to me with such love in his voice and understanding of who I am, what my
needs are, and seems to always know why I do the things I do. There is nothing that
compares to the love of God in my life. It’s something I can’t explain because there
are no human words for it, and God’s love has to be experienced first hand.