Part 8 - Embracing God's Mercy

One of the saddest things in life is not when someone loses something valuable, it is when someone forgets something valuable. Some people forget where they placed their keys. Others forget appointments. Some forget names. But there is a far more dangerous kind of forgetting: forgetting the One who saved you.

Throughout history, people have cried out to God in desperation, when life was falling apart, when sickness came, when finances were tight, when family was hurting. But once life got better… once blessings started flowing… some slowly forgot God. How many times do we do this?

The book of Hosea tells this tragic story. Israel was a nation blessed, rescued, and protected by God, but they turned away from Him and trusted idols instead. “The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them.”

God’s Word is like a GPS, designed to guide us safely to life. God keeps us on track. Do we argue with our GPS when it tells us to go right and we decide to go left, no, we enter our destination and follow it and trust that it’s telling us the truth.