August Favorites

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.  - Donald G. Mitchell

A Million Times Over

These scriptures struck me this morning:

"I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, the love of your betrothals, your following after me in the wilderness, through a land not sown." Jeremiah 2:2

"What injustice did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me & walked after emptiness & became empty?" Jeremiah 2:5

"For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Jeremiah 2:13

God is more forgotten than likely to forget.
He asks why, abandoned.
A million times over more ache than wrath.

God is Greater than our Heart

"We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things."

- - 1 John 3:19-20 (NAS)

Commentary Note:

God is greater than our heart. We may be either too strict

or too lenient in examining our lives;

therefore John's word of comfort is,

God the all-knowing is also the all-loving.

I've held a certain sin within scar tissue

wondering if it would ever heal.

God forgave me & seared my conscious

& I will forever sing His praises.