Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

This is one of my favorite verses. I aspire to be satisfied with myself, but I am not there yet. How I got to this verse this morning was a bit of a surprise to me. The Lord led me to another verse in Psalm 17 in which I am trying to deal with some personal issues.

I ended yesterday’s devotional with the advice “Get over it and get on with it.” Then as always when I open my mouth I am caught in my own words. Take you own advice, Larry.

Verse 7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

I am my own worst enemy. I am so blessed by my Lord I can literally say I have no one who stands against me, no one who is or will do me any harm. Except me.

I am extremely self-critical. Not because I am doing wrong or going in the wrong direction, but because I have placed a high expectation upon myself because of who I was before Christ. I am as far removed from being that person as anyone could expect, except me. I cannot get far enough away from that old dead stinking corpse that was me without Christ.

I don’t fear him coming back. Not everything about him was purely bad, some things about that old man were a victim, not of his own doing. Nothing can be done about that. Get over it and get on with it.

Easier said than done. I am reading Psalm 17 and reading all these declarations being made by David and I say to myself, “Who can you do that?”

Because I am in Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:8a Love never fails

I fail all the time; does that mean I do not have the love of God in my heart?

No not at all. Failure is about faithfulness. In the parable of the talents we learned that we are only faithful in a few things, yet we are declared good and faithful servants. Ref. Matthew 25:21

If we have been only faithful in a few things how is it that we could be declared faithful?

Because He is talking about the abiding love that never fails.

Who is faithful?

1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

He who abides in you is faithful. His abiding love, is faithful. His love never fails.

We are not that love, we are the loved.

So many times we look at ourselves as failing God and forget that He is more powerful than our failings. God has never failed us, nor His Word, nor His will and we are powerless to change any of that.

We beat ourselves up for our unfaithfulness and never seem to grasp the deeper issue. His love is at work in us in those very moments, if we will but respond to Him by rededication, renewal of purpose and not allow our mistakes to stop us from trying again.

Get over it and get on with it.