Things I have learned since Becoming Children’s Director – Number 3
God is Merciful and Gracious
Seems simple enough right? We here it all the time. “We serve a merciful God”, “God is gracious and full of mercy”
Until recently I never thought much about how David went from the fields tending to sheep to leading a nation or how Moses went from being a murderer to becoming Israel’s deliver. I grew up in church so often those stories though very real have been tainted by rose colored glasses. You don’t focus on the stupid stuff they did along the way. You don’t focus on the mistakes they made, you focus on the miracle that God used an unlikely source and made a great leader.
Recently, I started thinking about how gracious God has to be that He still choices the least likely to put in places of leadership. If He wasn’t full of grace, He would have given up this idea long ago. Unless you are willing to be gracious you gotta know the kind of people He picks are gonna mess up a lot, yet He continues to choose those very people.
I’m glad He has been gracious and merciful to me. He has given me more than I could have ever dreamed, allowed me to make mistakes, but spared me just in time.
