just letting things float by....or not

the weekend flew by so quickly. i went back to toronto on friday night, as sandra and kim had come up to jackson's to lead a holiness weekend. i was glad to have the break and do a few wedding things, sort my room a little, go running with kathy, see matt a tiny bit (of course, when i come back for the weekend, he's working...). it was nice. anyway, that's just a quick update.

here's today's real thought.

'Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blotout my trangressions. wash away all my inquity and cleanse my from my sin' psalm 51:1,2

i am reading through the psalms at the moment. i won't kid you, there's a lot of them. sometimes i think they are not really worth reading, at other times, i think that they are the greatest. sometimes i get distracted thinking oh these are just little poems or songs written by people...whatever. but at other times, the couldn't reveal any more truth about God and man. it doesn't take a genius to figure out that it really just comes down to my attitude. (Lord, please forgive me).

anyway, these verses are part of what i read yesterday. it could have been easy to skip over, not really think about it, just take it as part of the song david wrote. but there is so much in these two verses. we are full of sin and all God wants to do is love us. he is able to be in relationship with us because he sent his son to die, to take away our sin, to cleanse us. he did this just so he could be with us. this is the basis of christianity, the basis of a true believers relationship with God, but sometimes ,just like my reading of the psals, we skip over it, don't really think about it, appreciate, or even respond to it.

my prayers today are that we will always take the word of God as something we can learn from, never taking it for granted.
and that we all realise what this is talking about - and that we think about it, pray about it, take it on and respond to it.