Thoughts for another day

Sept. 18, 2012.

Today's verse: Ps. 62:11, 12. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

God speaks and power emanates.  In His Word is power, unlimited power by which the universe can be rendered upside down or split till every stone becomes dust.  Yes, God is Almighty and immense is His form.  Yet, when I think, in His plan to redeem man, a plan He conceived before the foundation of the world, He did not speak; but He became man with all man's attributes like pain and suffering and every other weak nature that man has and He experienced pain; excruciating and startling pain; and He died a horrifying, miserable death, the worst in those times, in a public place accorded the dignity of the worst criminal!

I wonder why…why did He die such a death.  And I realise when I look at our Scripture today that mercy belongs to Him.  A mercy that comes from His love; a love that comes from the fact that He is holy and because He is holy, there is no negative in Him.  He loves and He loves awesomely and there is no limit to His love and therefore He has mercy, a mercy that is able to see beyond sin, and perceive the misery of the sinner.  Yes, in this also He renders to each man according to his work for He is also a just God, ready to forgive, yet needing us to only ask His forgiveness.

As I think of Him, the God I worship, Yahweh God, the El Shaddai, the GREAT I AM; I can only bow down in gratitude and tell Him: My God have mercy and love me for the sake of Thy love, pardon me for the sake of Thy mercy and make me pure for You are too holy to behold even a small speck of dirt in me.