RTW 2022

You have rejected us, O God, and broken our defenses. You have been angry with us; now restore us to your favor.
Psalm 60:1

God does allow defeat

• Every time Israel went out to battle, the LORD fought against them, causing them to be defeated, just as he had warned. And the people were in great distress.
  Judges 2:15

God’s discipline can look like rejection if not see through the eyes of grace.

• The LORD is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
  Psalm 103:8
• For the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
  Proverbs 3:12 (ESV)
• Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
  Revelation 3:19 (ESV)

Since defeat/trials are most often experience as a result of disobedience.

Such times should:

• Teach the Value of Obedience
• Demonstrate that God knows Best
• Draw Us Back to Him

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime!
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5

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What more can I say to you? You know what your servant is really like, Sovereign LORD.
2 Samuel 7:20

What David said is so true! God knows what each of us are really like, the good, bad, and ugly, yet still chooses us.

This trust amazes me!

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Receive God’s discipline and correction as an act of love. Repent and return to Him.