The Lord will not cast off or reject a person, sinners, or His people forever, for His rejection is not permanent and will not last forever. His love for sinners does not end in rejection but remains the same.
Even when He causes grief through chastisement, permitted hardship, affliction, and the correction and distress He sends, He will have compassion according to His abundant mercies and does not afflict or grieve people willingly. Such hardship is not vindictive punishment but comes from love and mercy to bring people to recognize their dependence on Him. It is sent in mercy to awaken them from carnal security, to help them see their sins, and to lead them to genuine repentance and humiliation before God.
He does not upbraid or taunt men for weakness but pities them as a father pities his children and remembers that they are dust. He gives mercy and grace to help in time of need, never leaves nor forsakes them, freely gives all things with Christ, and faithfully will not suffer them to be tempted above what they can bear but makes a way of escape. No one is lost unless they refuse to return to the Father and resist His everlasting love and mercy. This assurance is not permission to sin or to follow selfish desires, for faith in His love works through love and purifies the heart, and His goodness leads people to repentance.
The verse stands as one of God's abundant promises given to rebuke distrust and faint-heartedness, to be taken as real and appropriated in faith without wavering so as to stop all murmuring and doubting. It comforts those suffering bereavement, sorrow, reproach, loss, or distress over sin with the assurance that chastening and affliction do not mean He has forsaken them.
The Lord will not cast off or reject a person, sinners, or His people forever, for His rejection is not permanent and will not last forever. His love for sinners does not end in rejection but remains the same.
Even when He causes grief through chastisement, permitted hardship, affliction, and the correction and distress He sends, He will have compassion according to His abundant mercies and does not afflict or grieve people willingly. Such hardship is not vindictive punishment but comes from love and mercy to bring people to recognize their dependence on Him. It is sent in mercy to awaken them from carnal security, to help them see their sins, and to lead them to genuine repentance and humiliation before God.
He does not upbraid or taunt men for weakness but pities them as a father pities his children and remembers that they are dust. He gives mercy and grace to help in time of need, never leaves nor forsakes them, freely gives all things with Christ, and faithfully will not suffer them to be tempted above what they can bear but makes a way of escape. No one is lost unless they refuse to return to the Father and resist His everlasting love and mercy. This assurance is not permission to sin or to follow selfish desires, for faith in His love works through love and purifies the heart, and His goodness leads people to repentance.
The verse stands as one of God's abundant promises given to rebuke distrust and faint-heartedness, to be taken as real and appropriated in faith without wavering so as to stop all murmuring and doubting. It comforts those suffering bereavement, sorrow, reproach, loss, or distress over sin with the assurance that chastening and affliction do not mean He has forsaken them.