It doesn’t matter how old you are- each of us can resonate with fear over how much of our lives we have wasted spiritually. That’s because we are all sinners. Like we saw last week, even if we haven’t committed as dramatic of a sin as David had in Chapter 11, we all have our hands filthy with iniquity. Maybe you’ve tried living the Christian life and feel like you can never get ahead. Maybe it’s been so frustrating for you that you’ve given up truly pursuing God altogether.<\/p>\n
God pursues sinning saints to restore them by grace. Our challenge this day and every day is- how do you respond to His pursuing grace?<\/em> David responded with humility, repentance, and confession, and he continued to pursue communion with God by faith. God lovingly pursued David in grace, proving that no relationship with God is hopelessly doomed because of sin. How will you respond to His pursuing grace towards you today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It doesn’t matter how old you are- each of us can resonate with fear over how much of our lives we have wasted spiritually. That’s because we are all sinners….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sermons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-Samuel.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9J9R0-3zZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}