The God of Atonement and the God of the Harvest

The God of Atonement and the God of the Harvest
Psalm 65

A lively but respectable-looking student was telling me her life story. She had reacted against a Christian upbringing while she was at college and (among other things) had become involved with drugs and with a guy who was abusive. As is the nature of such relationships, it seemed impossible to get away with simply terminating the relationship or walking out on him, but as the situation got worse she was even more burdened by the fact that she was in this mess because she had turned her back on her Christian upbringing. It was as if God could have gotten her out of her mess, but she had wandered so far that there was no way to get back. She did, however, reach out desperately to God, and God did rescue her...