Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another Mornings with the Master for Devoters

Elks of the Lord, daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, indeed.

We're picking up with day two of our Awakened Devotional and the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us.

And as always, I'm going to read the scripture, then tour it again and pick up the divo.

Let's do it.

Our second Chronicles chapter 33 verse 12, and it says this.

But while in deep distress, Manasseh salted the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself

before the God of his ancestors.

The devotional is titled Never Too Far Gone, and it says this.

To say Manasseh was an evil king is like saying the Grand Canyon as a whole in the ground.

The Bible said he shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from

one end to another.

If any one monarch's abominations were to blame for God's abandonment of Judah to exile,

it was this king who had done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him.

Greatfully, God is not a stoic being who deals with humankind in a manner devoid of emotions

and sentiments.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding and loving kindness.

He will not always strive with us nor will he keep his anger forever.

He is not dealt with us according to our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities,

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