Driving home Tuesday night, I looked down the road and was sure there was a small penguin standing in the road.
\nNo I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been drinking and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was a Billy Maddison Flashback, but I was certain I was about to run over a small penguin, a block from my house, on the second night of a Texas August.
\nBut as I drove closer to the penguin, my eyes cleared and Mr. Penguin spotted me as well. It plopped back down on all fours and the black and white cat, skitted off across my neighbors lawn.
\nMr Penguin reminded me of how easily deceived we can be sometimes. We trust clients, friends or family members, when they know all along they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not being upfront and honest with us.
\nMany times we put our trust in men of God, only to discover they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually men of gods.
\nBut why should we be surprised? Scripture tells us that Satan is the king of deception. He will use people and everything he can to deceive us.
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll even do his best to tell you, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not good enough. God doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want you. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re full of sin and mistakes and failures. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never measure up. God can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use you and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want anything to do with you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nBut scripture also reminds us that God doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done in the past. God cares about today and the present. He cares about right now. What are you doing right now to get yourself on the right track.
\nBecause when you ask, He forgives and forgets what you did instantly. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write your mistakes down, He erases His records and puts them down at the deepest point of the sea, and moves them as far away as the East is from the West.
\nI was reminded this Sunday of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faithfulness to the Israelites, even after they forgot their commitment with Him.
\nJoshua 10 tells the story of how despite the Isrealites lack of commitment, God stopped the earth from spinning to keep His commitment to them.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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