I sometimes wonder at how God must feel about us people.
I know He loves us. It is overwhelming at times how much He does love us. But seriously, how does He not just get so pissed off at us all the time.
I was reading in Acts today and saw what Stephen was saying to the people. "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you." (Acts 7:51)
As Christians, we have the Word of God and the gift of the Holy Spirit to provide us with clear direction about how to live in obedience to God and so much of the time, we just don't.
Throughout history, this has always been a recurring theme. Continually, the human race has chosen sin and ignored God. And continually, sin has had consequence and God continues to redeem and forgive.
Don't you wonder if he ever gets tired of it? Its not like he left us to wander through life with no direction. Yet we don't listen to it. And then, when we are at the bottom; when we have messed up so many times that we can't even remember; then, we turn to Him. We ask Him to save us, help us, redeem us. And He always does. That is the God we serve.
When I view the patience with which he deals with His children. The lovingkindness of our Creator calls to the depth of my soul creating a desire in me to be obedient. He is so faithful, and so I desire to be.
When I dwell on the sinfulness in which mankind continues to perpetuate itself and the continual love and compassion of our God, my heart swells with amazement at God. For while he is perfect in all ways and righteously hates sin, he still can look past our mistakes every time--no matter how bad we mess up, no matter how stupid we are--and still love and forgive us. It just makes me desire even more to not disappoint my Jesus.
