"The Healing of Mercy"

"I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee." (Psalms 41:4) We can never get to the point where we have caught up with the debt that we owe God; I don't care how many people you help out, our debt is more than can be paid by anything we do in this life. That was the whole point of what Jesus came and died for, in case we should need to be reminded. And yet, how often do we try and count the ways that we serve God, as if we are keeping score or something? When it comes right down to it, we are all sinners through and through, and there is nothing we can do to change that; only the blood of Jesus can make us clean from our sins, works only get in the way of making us come clean before Him; not that we should not have good works, because we must in order for our faith to be real; but our works are never to be counted towards righteousness, only for the demonstration of our faith in what God has done in us, which is a little thing called love. Healing the body might buy you some more time here on this earth, and depending on who you are, that might be a good thing, or it could be a bad thing, for you; I say for you, because whether you go or stay, God's plan continues just as it were, regardless of what happens to us. A good example of what I am talking about is found 2 Kings 20, which is when Hezekiah becomes sick and was to die, yet God granted him 15 more years; some might argue whether or not Manasseh began to reign before Hezekiah died, but I tend to believe that he began his reign after Hezekiah's death, just as the Bible says; which means that Manasseh was born during the 15 years of Hezekiah's extended life, because he was twelve years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1). Manasseh was one of the worst kings that there was, and killed many innocent people; so much so, that it says he filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with the slain (2 Kings 21:16). Interesting enough, but Manasseh is listed in the family record of Jesus (Matthew 1:10), which would indicate that he was part of God's plan all along, seeing how that he was part of the bloodline of ancestor's of Christ. God is always in control... "Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:13-17)