Playlist Prompt #18: "The Song That Never Ends"

Hello, friends! Today's prompt, courtesy of Melissa because who else, is the song fittingly called "The Song That Never Ends."

Do you ever feel like a broken record, repeating the same old song? Like you're stuck in a pattern and can't escape it? 

I feel that way a lot. And just like the song says,

"Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was / and they'll continue singing it forever, just because"

We never intend to adopt bad habits. We never wake up one morning and think to ourselves, "Today I'm going to start eating junk food all the time," or "Today I'm going to start worrying constantly about unreasonable things." No, bad habits start accidentally, and often with a healthy dose of self-deception. "I'll just do it this once," we say, although if we allowed ourselves to think about it, we would know that whatever "it" is will likely happen again, and again, and again.

The best example of a vicious cycle in the Bible is in the book of Judges. Each section of Judges starts out the same way - the Israelites fall into sin. Then God allows them to be oppressed. Then the Israelites repent. Then God delivers them from oppression. Then they fall into sin again, and the cycle starts anew. 

God is part of that cycle. He is omniscient - he knows that the Israelites will fall into sin again. So why does he keep delivering them, over and over and over? Wouldn't it be easier and more logical to abandon his faithless children?

Sometimes the best news is that God's love defies logic. Just like our fall into sin and our bad habits are endless cycles, so too is God's love for us.

"The steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him." (Psalm 103:17a)

No matter what, day after day, time after time, everlasting to everlasting, God's love will remain. His mercy will never fail. That is the true song that never ends, and it will go on and on, my friends.