Dear Mikayla, it is wonderful that you are wishing to avoid further presumption. I’m sure that is pleasing to the Lord.
Dear Lord, help us never to say or think, "I don’t care if I wound You, later You will forgive me. " We do not wish others to insult and wound us again and again just to take advantage of our good nature and willingness to forgive. Help us never to do this to You.
“Moreover,
no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.” Ecclesiastes 9:11
Lord, You have said, “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crop.” "Then he said, 'This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years.” ’ "But God said to him, '
You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'Luke 12:17-20
We can fool ourselves, but we do not know if the moment of death will come upon us and find us in our sins. And to sin in presumption of mercy is an insult we would not wish to accept from anyone, and like Mikayla, we do not wish to do this to You, who love us so much, who became incarnate, lived, taught, suffered, died, and rose again to save us.Please help us to live in respect and honor towards Your gift of eternal life and joy.
