“1Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.” – Psalm 51:1 (ESV)
I have studied the above verse a number of times and each time related to mercy. This morning as I study “steadfast”, I see that God wants us to be aware of His steadfast love for us. His love is firmly fixed, immovable, and not subject to change as I have noted according to Merriam-Webster, and we should be grateful for it. But that is not where it ends.
I have to be accustomed to asking for God’s steadfast love in my life. I cannot just receive it once and take the approach of “all’s good”. I have to reach out to Him and ask for His continuance of granting His steadfast love to me. It is not that He has taken it away, it is just that through my asking I am acknowledging its existence and most importantly acknowledging to God of my devotion to Him.
I should seek mercy, yes, for I am a sinner and will continue to be a sinner. But as noted in our example to prayer from Jesus, we should be acknowledging the greatness of God and asking for His will to continue being done and thanking Him for the provisions in our lives. It is all of these points that demonstrate our asking for the steadfast love of God in our lives.
I ask right now for God to provided his steadfast love in my life for now and evermore. I will ask again later today and again tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I am in need of it and know that God will provide, but I still need to ask.
When you think of God’s steadfast love, when do you ask for it? Are you asking continually? What if you were to ask for the steadfast love of God each and every day?
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