Morning, March 10
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So the LORD is waiting to show his mercy to you. He wants to rise and comfort you. The LORD is the God who does the right thing, so he will bless everyone who waits for his help.

We don't usually think of God as being a God who waits. After all, He is the Sovereign Lord of the universe. He can do what He wants when He wants. He doesn't have to wait for anything. All He has to do is speak and worlds come into being. He says: "My words make the things happen that I want to happen" (Isaiah 55:11). Nevertheless, our verse for today tells us that God is waiting for us. He is waiting for us to come to a certain point and then He will spring into action.

What God is waiting for is the opportunity to rise up from His waiting and comfort us, show us His mercy, and help us in our time of need. God is a God who wants to do the right thing by us. He wants to help us, but He wants something to happen before He rises up to show Himself strong on our behalf. If we will come to a certain point, if we will do the right thing, then God will do the right thing for us.

The point that God wants us to reach is the point where we stop trying to make it on our own apart from Him. God wants us to turn to Him and wait. One might say that God is waiting for us to wait. He could help us without any waiting on our part if He wanted to, but He wants us to wait for Him. He wants us to honor Him as God by waiting for Him to decide when to act. What He doesn't want is for us to give up on waiting and try to go it alone. What He doesn't want is for us to give up on Him as God.

God is God. He is the Sovereign Lord and King over all things. We are subjects in His Kingdom. It is only fitting and proper that we wait on Him to move on our behalf.

And we can count on Him, because the Lord is the God who does the right thing.

Bible in a Year
Old Testament Reading
Deuteronomy 11, 12, 13


Deuteronomy 11 -- God's Great Blessings for Obedience and Love

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Deuteronomy 12 -- Laws of the Sanctuary

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Deuteronomy 13 -- No Mercy for Idolaters

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New Testament Reading
Mark 13:1-13


Mark 13 -- Christ Foretells the Destruction of the Temple and His Return; Day and Hour Unknown

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Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion
He has removed our sins as far from us
        as the east is from the west.
Insight
East and west can never meet. This is a symbolic portrait of God's forgiveness—when he forgives our sin, he separates it from us and doesn't even remember it. We need never wallow in the past, for God forgives and forgets. We tend to dredge up the ugly past, but God has wiped our record clean.
Challenge
If we are to follow God, we must model his forgiveness. When we forgive another, we must also forget the sin. Otherwise, we have not truly forgiven.
Morning and Evening by Spurgeon
Psalm 30:6  In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved.

"Moab settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel." Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield abundantly: let the weather be propitious to his crops; let uninterrupted success attend him; let him stand among men as a successful merchant; let him enjoy continued health; allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye to march through the world, and live happily; give him the buoyant spirit; let him have the song perpetually on his lips; let his eye be ever sparkling with joy--and the natural consequence of such an easy state to any man, let him be the best Christian who ever breathed, will be presumption; even David said, "I shall never be moved;" and we are not better than David, nor half so good. Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way; if you are treading them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it. If God should always rock us in the cradle of prosperity; if we were always dandled on the knees of fortune; if we had not some stain on the alabaster pillar; if there were not a few clouds in the sky; if we had not some bitter drops in the wine of this life, we should become intoxicated with pleasure, we should dream "we stand;" and stand we should, but it would be upon a pinnacle; like the man asleep upon the mast, each moment we should be in jeopardy.

We bless God, then, for our afflictions; we thank him for our changes; we extol his name for losses of property; for we feel that had he not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.

"Afflictions, though they seem severe,

In mercy oft are sent."

Daily Light on the Daily Path
Genesis 22:14  Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it will be provided."

Genesis 22:8  Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

Isaiah 59:1  Behold, the LORD'S hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.

Romans 11:26  and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."

Psalm 146:5  How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Psalm 33:18,19  Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope for His lovingkindness, • To deliver their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.

Philippians 4:19  And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 13:5,6  Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU," • so that we confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?"

Psalm 28:7  The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

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