Daily Devotional

July 7th, 2025
by Laurel Dhillon

Deuteronomy 4:30–31 - "When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them." (NKJV)

You know that feeling you get when you have messed up and you feel so bad and just want forgiveness but know you really don’t deserve it? I hate that feeling! But for some reason it can take me awhile before I go to the Lord for forgiveness. And even when I do I don’t always believe He’s forgiven me because the regret is still present. I know that I’m forgiven but sometimes it takes someone to tell me that everything is going to be okay before that distress subsides.

So when I read this I really could personalize it. I was reminded that that was what Jesus did. He made the mercy of God real and practical and permanent. So that when we turn our lives over to Him, He will never forsake us. God’s mercy hasn’t changed, “He is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Hebrews 13:8

His Mercy Is More
Matt Boswell and Matt Papa

Verse 1
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

Verse 2
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more Verse 3
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

Chorus 1
Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn Our sins they are many His mercy is more
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New King James Version (NKJV)
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