Pastor John, we get emails often from people who are essentially asking the question,

is there any hope for me?

Is there any hope for me after I've sent in a really stupid way and am now paying the

price for my foolish choices?

What would you say to someone in that situation?

Tony, Psalm 107 has been over the years a huge encouragement to me in my own wrestling

with a sense of failure at times and wondering, is there a future for ministry or even a

face?

And probably as much as any other Psalm, Psalm 107 has been the one that has made it possible

for me to reach out and rescue, I think, some folks who feel like there's just no hope

for them.

They've sinned too many times or they've sinned into horrible a way for God to have any

future for them.

So let me just share with you or the folks that might be in that condition what I meditated

on yesterday.

I was reading through the Psalms again and came to Psalm 107 which begins, I'll give

thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His steadfast love and doers forever.

And that's the refrain that comes again and again.

The Psalm ends, whoever is wise, let him attend to these things, let them consider the

steadfast love of the Lord.

So it begins and it ends with the steadfast love of the Lord and then four times there's

these four stories or these four stanzas where it repeats, they cried to the Lord in their

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