WE ALL STAND DAILY IN THE MERCY OF GOD

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (HEBREWS 4:16)

Although God wants His people to be holy as He is holy, He does not deal with us according to the degree of our holiness but according to the abundance of His mercy.

 

Honesty requires us to admit this!

 

We do believe in justice and we do believe in judgment. We believe the only reason mercy triumphs over judgment is that God, by a divine, omniscient act of redemption, fixed it so man could escape justice and live in the sea of mercy! The justified man, the man who believes in Jesus Christ, born anew and now a redeemed child of God, lives in that mercy always!

 

The unjust man, however—the unrepentant sinner lives in it now in a lesser degree, but the time will come when he will face the judgment of God. Though he had been kept by the mercy of God from death, from insanity, from disease, he can violate that mercy, turn his back on it and walk into judgment. Then it is too late!

 

Let us pray with humility and repentance for we stand in the mercy of God. What an example we have set for us by the life and faith and spirit of the old Puritan saint, Thomas Hooker, as his death approached.

 

Those around his bedside said, “Brother Hooker, you are going to receive your reward.”

“No, no!” he breathed. “I go to receive mercy!”

 

  1. W. Tozer