I am not that any longer
For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does. He loves whatever is just and good; the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth. (Psalm 33:4-5) Notice - we can trust everything he DOES. Our passage doesn't just point to everything he SAYS - it focuses on both his Word (what he says) and his actions (what he does). He backs what he SAYS by what he DOES. Why do we think God would expect anything less of us? We SAY a lot (promising to do this or that), but we actually DO a lot less than what we say. As my pastor pointed out this weekend, we do what we do because of how we see ourselves. We see ourselves as failures, and we fail. We see ourselves as victors, and we come closer to total victory than we would have if we saw ourselves as failures in all we do. We TELL ourselves a whole bunch of stuff about ourselves that actually LIMITS our behavior (either in a good way or in a bad way). God doesn't tell us to focus on the bad ...