Mercy Follows Me (even when I mess up again)
Sometimes we slip into thinking, ‘Okay, this one’s on me. I need to fix this, and I need to make up for it.’ But Psalm 23 doesn’t say mercy leads us, it says it follows us. It’s not waiting on our perfect performance. It’s not holding back until we finally get it together. It followed us all through our past, and now it walks with us in the present. God’s mercy covers what we thought disqualified us. It didn’t miss the moments we’re most ashamed of. It followed us there, right through that too. It will follow us all the way home.