Yesterday I was feeling really homesick and lonely. Rachel goes to training at 9, but I don't go till 1 so I'm alone for quite awhile. I was really missing my family and doubting my reasons for being here at Glorieta. But then I decided to read the chapter assigned for the ladies' Bible study of "The Attributes of God" back home.
The topic for this month is mercy, and it honestly couldn't have come at a better time for me. I was really wondering what my purpose for being here was, but throughout the chapter I was reminded of God's goodness and how His mercy is extravagant and never ending. I liked this one section of Tozer's:
One fact about the mercy of God is that it never began to be. I've heard of men who were hardhearted or careless, but they began to get stirred up and mercy blossomed forth. It never was so of God. God never lay in lethargy without His compassion. God's mercy is simply what God is--uncreated and eternal. It never began to be; it always was. Heaven and earth were yet unmade and the stars were yet unformed and all that space men are talking about now was only a thought in the mind of God. God was as merciful as He is now. And not only did it never begin to be, but the mercy of God also has never been any more than it is now.
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So glad that the Lord had you read that chapter when you most needed it! I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for you!
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