I remember it all … the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember … God's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3:20-23
In truth, I did not expect much activity when I walked into the banking hall today, but I was quite startled by what I witnessed. The silence was absolutely deafening. The peace and quiet was a long way removed from the hustle and bustle of just a few weeks earlier when last-minute Christmas shoppers had crowded the tills, waiting to clear out their accounts in the spirit of the season. It was quite unusual to see jobless tellers, idly waiting for the odd customer and, I would imagine, playing an interminable game of solitaire on their tabletop monitors. So much for Monday morning banking.
I had come in to deposit a cheque and the irony of it was not lost on me. What a time to deposit money! Who doesn't feel the crunch of the last few days of January? Who doesn't reel from the shock of binge spending at the height of the holidays? Most of us just grind out these bare days, one hour at a time, making every red cent count while the elusive paycheck takes its jolly good time in coming.
I would proffer that the undulations of our salary accounts parallel the zeniths and nadirs of our spiritual lives. It would seem that as soon as we experience a season of refreshing, peace and genuine communion it is soon followed by the lows of guilt, disappointment and sin that leave us feeling depleted and overdrawn. And when we've made that last withdrawal, there is nowhere left to turn. We tell ourselves that our credit is finished. There is no more mercy, no more grace, no more love.
Enter Jesus. In one momentous act of redemption, he credited our accounts with love, mercy and grace … forever. We are never too far gone, never stuck too deep, never fallen too low. It is at the lowest moments that he is there, waiting, with open arms. If only we would write that cheque and present it, we would find that our account is never overdrawn. Not in January, not ever. There is enough mercy, enough grace, enough love to help us through the difficult times until we can again stand on our feet to receive the abundance that God has stored up for us. His mercies are new every morning; how great His faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:23)
With love, Doosuur
