I was reading Psalm 25 this morning, as part of the She Reads Truth devotional (it's awesome, if you haven't checked it out!) and this verse stood out to me:
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
- Psalm 25:6
There is something disarming and comforting about the fact that God's mercy and love are "from of old."
It reminds me of Ephesians 1:4-5, which states: "he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ . . ."
If this really is true, that means that God was determined to love us even before we entered this world. Before our parents even entered the world. Before everything.
That means there is nothing we can do to outrun God's love, nothing we can do to remove His mercy and grace - even in our darkest of days. If He determined to set His love on us before creation, why do we think that we somehow hold enough power to remove or change that love?
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