Thoughts for another day

Oct. 4, 2007

Today's verse: Dan. 3:35, 39. Do not withdraw your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham your beloved and for the sake of your servant Isaac and Israel your holy one… Yet with a contrite heart and a humble spirit may we be accepted, (RSV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

God made man and a few rules by which man is to abide. That is because man came from God and is designed to be with God forever. The rules were so that man would be fit to be in the environment of God. But as evil entered the heart of man through the devil’s temptation and seduction, man started rebelling against the laws of God. His rebellion was like darts being thrown on God paining Him.

God had a choice. To destroy man; or save Him. Now even before the foundation of the world, God knew that His most choice creation would rebel against Him and fall. Then the Son, Yashua Masiach, volunteered to step in and restore the situation. What would have been sure destruction of man, transcended to his being washed of his sin and being saved. A new dimension was birthed then. A dimension of MERCY. This was because the Son looked at the Father and saw the pride the Father had in Man. How then could the Son bear to see the Father hurt; which He would be, if He had to destroy man. Such deep love between the three persons of the Trinity accedes to hurt self rather than see any of the other, hurt! Then on, mercy has always bailed man out of the wrath of God.

God’s mercy is extensive and awesome. Not because we are deserving but because God cannot but remember, the moment the Son chose to become so small like puny man and die to save man and please Him. God’s mercies are new every morning because of the effusion of the love God has for His Son. Besides God, in creating us with much love, is only pleased to forgive us our sin and why not, when His Son has washed them away. This isn’t so that we keep sinning, but rather we discover how much love there is in God’s heart for us.

Remember dear follower of Jesus, God is merciful and we need his mercy. Whenever we fall short of His glory, let us from our hearts attain to the prayer of Azariah as he and his companions sang to God’s glory in the fiery furnace that did not so much as singe their hair. Bear in mind that God’s mercy is just a prayer away.