How Wonderful Is His Mercy

Friend, we humans think we know what mercy is. 

We believe ( in our own minds) that we have been merciful to others, who by our account have wronged us.

We offer mercy to spouses time and time again, we are merciful to our children, who show anger and hate towards us at times. We even offer mercy to strangers when we're out in public places, who show us no mercy.

At times we're outspoken about offering mercy to criminal offenders; or those who have different belief systems than ourselves.

There are many instances of mercy throughout our lives that we can lay claim to offering. It was easy we think, to do that, and the value of mercy isn't, that great.

And so we wonder why should we worry about God and His Mercy; as if it is better somehow, than what we would offer someone.

We think God's Mercy is equal to what we would show another human, so we believe we're entitled to His Mercy, and that, it is a given we will receive it, because of our own shown kindnesses, when we were inwardly and publicly hurt by others, both family and stranger.

But friend, God's Mercy is more than what we offer and has great consequences that are afforded to us when we receive it.

Unless we look at His Mercy from His Perspective, which is Holy Law of all things, ( not just the Ten Commandments) we will never see the True Value of God's Mercy.

But He gave us a sign of Mercy for all time. 

It is The Cross that His Son was crucified upon.

The Cross of Jesus's Crucifixion contains a whole Holy Truth.

To be nailed to a cross was to be condemned to die a horrrible death, fitting for an unredeemable criminal.

It was a humiliation, an embarassment and a statement of unworthiness to live in society.

It was a long and slow death, and usually involved physical tortuous whippings and scourging, before being nailed to the cross; according to the crime or crimes.

By day's end a guard could use his spear, thrust it into the body so that death would be assured by sundown. In this way there would be no way the body could live or be revived, when relatives removed it from the cross to the burial site.

That was the last indignity; the spear in the side.

Jesus received that but the other two crucified that day on the Hill of Calvary, had already passed on.

Jesus's crime was that He was preaching to the Jews; He was performing miracles (the blind received sight, the lame, walked, the deaf could hear, leprosy disappeared, the dead were revived to life) and so He was accused of having demonic powers by the Jewish Temple leaders; even though the people He healed were of their own, Israelites.

The Temple priests and leaders did not recognize their own Saviour. They knew the Scriptures, and that the Messiah was coming, but because of their hard hearted hearts, their spiritual eyes were not open and they could not see this simple, humble, human, was their longed for Messiah!.

They wanted a Kingly person capable of overthrowing the Romans who ruled over them, in a type of captivity.

Are your spiritual eyes open?

Are they ready to really see what God has done?

He introduced Mercy to this world in Godly doses!

He declared while on the Cross; while speaking to the Father, "Forgive them for they know NOT what they do."

"Forgive them;" while He is hanging by a few nails from the Cross, bleeding from His wounds, thirsty from loss of blood, muscles and sinews screaming in pain, feeling all the body constraints; being totally and fully innocent, sinless.

He was capable and would have had every right, to depart straight up to Heaven in full view of all those gathered around; forsake this world and enjoy His Kingly Reign in Heaven.

"Forgive them;" all the "thems," meaning even you and I today.

He forgives us. He stayed on The Cross until all was accomplished according to the Punishment of all mankind, past present and future. Until God's Law was fulfilled.

He walked among us, and even though from Heaven seated on His Throne, He could see everything that satan is doing to us, He came to walk with us, to show us; He knows.

We can't say, " Oh, He was God and doesn't know what it is like for us."

Nope, can't do that. He was here and experienced the best and worst of what we experience.

And, still He did not sin.

He obeyed the Father, and The Word, and The Ten Commandents.

It can be done, but He knows the sins that we fall into and follow, so He went to the Cross so we could have True Forgiveness of all sins.

That is how Merciful He is.

He didn't have to do that.

The Law was already given and He showed how it can be obeyed. He did that.

But we cannot obey The Ten Commandments. We are weak because we love to sin; and it has permeated us for generations.

So His Mercy endures forever for those who will accept His Accomplished Work of Redemption; for all who will believe in Him; who He is and what He has done for mankind.

The Father said only those who come to Him by way of The Son in whom He is well pleased will be accepted into The Kingdom.

So it is by Jesus's Redemptive Work on The Cross that The Ten Commandments have had a New Covenant added that all; not just Jews may be Saved, Forgiven, Renewed in mind, body and spirit and receive Eternal Life with Christ so that wherever He is, we may be also.

Knowing we are sinners but seeing His Blood covering those sins, He welcomes us with Pure Love to Himself.

He is our King and we are His People.

Or, satan is our king and we are his damned.

Those are the only two choices.

Choose God's Great Mercy Plan, today, friend!