Joe and I were walking in a Hapeville neighborhood recently when I heard the unmistakable bleat of a goat coming from a backyard. I have seen chickens around town but this was my first goat. I remarked to Joe, “You can’t hide a goat.” We wondered about the city code on goats. Sin is that way, too. You can get away with something some of the time but not all of the time. Our deeds are prone to catching up with us. Even if others don’t know what we’ve done God knows. God knows everything. I ran into Melissa Gibson at the funeral home Tuesday night. She has really good girls. Still she said that she reminds them like her mom did her, that disappointing their parents is nothing like disappointing God. Do you think about that when you plan your actions? Do you think about disappointing God? As the saying goes, there is nothing that we can do to make God love us more and at the same time there is nothing we can do the make God love us less. And yet, we can disappoint God. I sure hate to do that.
Heavenly Father, Often we don’t mean to disappoint you. We disappoint ourselves when we can’t act the way we know you want us to. Human nature is sometimes just too strong. Help us please to live life of love and kindness. We ask this in the name of your perfect Son. Amen.
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