The Psalmist today reminds us of the beauty of God's mercy. God's mercy is steadfast.
This means that we have the ability to be freed from our mistakes. We can be freed from our shame and our guilt. We can be freed from the brokenness that makes us less than what we hope to be...what we have been designed to be.
As humans, our disposition seems to be one of making others pay for their mistake. We have a hard time believing that God simply desires to release us from our mistakes.
Oh, don't get me wrong. This simple act of turning away from our destructive ways and turning toward God's life-giving ways is hard. It's hard to let go of customs, habits, disciplines that feed us somehow---even as they are diminishing us (and often, others). It is not an easy thing to be transformed.
But it is simple in the fact that all it requires is choosing. Choosing to let the Holy Spirit guide us in knowing what changes need to be made and then moving into those changes, with God's help. Always with God's help.
O God of our salvation, restore us to the joy of your Kingdom through your steadfast mercy and the sustenance of your saving Spirit. Make us whole. Amen.
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