What if…..”Mercy in Disguise”

Read these lyrics.  Listen to the song.  Let the message penetrate through disappointment, anger, hurt, doubt and all the other emotions that keep us from full trust in the all knowing Father who loves us most and knows us best. Trusting Him, because He has provided a way for us to have an Eternal relationship with Him through the provision of His Son as a sacrifice for our sin of unbelief.

We cannot keep His perfect Law.  The Law God gave to His people, Israel, to teach them His life giving principles.  The Law given to help us understand we are debtors, we owe a debt too great for us to ever pay.  God in His mercy offered first to His people a way to have a relationship with Him, unbroken by sin.  They rejected that provision.  They rejected Christ as their Messiah because He didn’t look  or perform as they thought their Messiah should.  They didn’t understand, and they crucified God’s  perfect  Son.  God then allowed His grace to fall on those who were/ are not Jews.  Gentiles.  The rest of us.  We have been offered the greatest gift of all time…of all Eternity.  The gift of accepting Jesus’ substitutionary death on the cross for our sins.  For our inability to keep the perfect Law.  That Law is now our teacher, to show us we NEED Him.

When this message resonates in a heart, when it becomes clear what the message of salvation through Christ means, there is nothing more important than to acknowledge that need of a Savior and declare acceptance.  By God’s grace and mercy, we enter into His Eternal peace.  And His Word to us, the Holy Word, the Bible, then becomes alive with meaning, instruction, comfort…it is His love letter to His children.  Start with the Gospel of John…read, slowly, digest the words and let the Spirit of God,  in you when you agree with Him you have a need for His salvation and accept His provision, teach you what He wants you to know about how to live life fully, in Him.  Above all else, recognize that we need His grace and mercy every day to follow His Word, and live by the example set by His Son, for God’s honor and glory.

It is for His honor and glory …

Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; …