Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

I'm James Banks, and I called our devotional reading today, Love Beyond Boundaries.

God has been so good to us.

I want to thank him for our anniversary."

Terry's voice was steady, and the tears in her eyes showed her sincerity.

Those in our small group were deeply moved.

We knew what past years had held for Terry and her husband.

Though a believer, Robert suffered from the sudden onset of severe mental illness

and had taken the life of their four-year-old daughter. He would be institutionalized for decades,

but Terry visited him, and God did a beautiful healing work helping her forgive. Despite profound heartache, their love for each other grew.

Love and forgiveness like that could only come from one source. In Psalm 103, David writes about God

this way. He does not treat us as our sins deserve as far as the east is from the West so far as he removed our transgressions from us.

The mercy God shows us comes through his expansive love, for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for us.

Love so profound compelled him to go to the depths of the cross and grave, to take away

our sins, so that he could bring all who receive him home to himself.

Terry was right. God has been so good to us. His love and forgiveness reach beyond

unthinkable boundaries and offer us life that never ends.

Today's our daily-bred devotional scripture reading is from Psalm 103,

verses 8 to 17.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever.

He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

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