Is there no hope for me then? Am I finished forever?

My only hope lies with God Himself. If I have offended someone, it is only that person who can forgive me. My sin is against God and against His love for me.

God seems to have given a spark of hope to our first parents when He told the serpent. “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed ; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

To sum up, God has placed me in a wonderful world. He has given me great gifts. He has shown great love for me. But I have done evil against Him and against my fellowmen. I have refused to serve Him. I am dead in my sins. There is no hope for me from myself.

My only hope is if God stretches down His hand to lift me up. Can I hope that He will do this?

It is time to sit quietly alone and think about the tremendous things I have just read.

1. Can I believe that God has made all the wonders of the universe for man-for me?

2. Can I be so important?

3. Do I really believe in God? Do I really have a duty towards Him? Is He really my Father?

4. What does religion mean for me?

5. Am I really a sinner?

6. Do I need help from someone else to be saved?

A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND TRUST

Out of the depths I cry to you O Lord

Lord hear my voice!

O let your ears be attentive to the voice

Of my pleading.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,

Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness:

For this we praise you.

My soul is waiting for the Lord,

I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the Lord more

Than watchman for daybreak.

Let the watchman count on daybreak

And we on the Lord.

Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

His people indeed he will redeem from

All its iniquity.

Psalm 129


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