Warnings are everywhere

Our Daily Bread
I find it amusing at times how many "warnings" there are nowadays.  When I was growing up, you were lucky to see a "Wet Floors" sign after someone mopped!  Nowadays, there are warning signs everywhere do people don't have an accident or do something silly on purpose.  It has been proven that you can't "warn" away the latter!

God also sends us warning, but they are different.  He tries to warn us when sin starts to come between us and Him.  Those little things that don't seem like sin or little sins that don't seem to have any immediate repercussions.  We all have those, right?  Sin is sin.  Any sin can cause a rift between us and God.  We know, however, that if we confess our sins, He is faithful to forgive us our sins.  Praise God!  I sometimes think that his is a "free card" to sin.  NO!  We are to do our best to serve God and sin no more.  We are human, though, so God gives us his grace so we can continue fellowship with him!

Lord, we thank you and praise you for warnings and for grace.

Psalm Sunday
Let's look at Psalm 103 today.  I was not familiar with this one at all, but it has components of many of the psalms all wrapped up in to one.  I call it "a good one"!

Psalm 103

Of David.

1 Praise the Lord, my soul;
    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
    and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
    his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
    slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
    nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
    or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
    he remembers that we are dust.
15 The life of mortals is like grass,
    they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
    and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
    the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
    and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 with those who keep his covenant
    and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven,
    and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the Lord, you his angels,
    you mighty ones who do his bidding,
    who obey his word.
21 Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,
    you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the Lord, all his works
    everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the Lord, my soul.

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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13