"Undeserved Mercy"

"Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever." (Psalms 118:2)

 My guess, as far as God's mercy is concerned, is that there is nothing we can ever do earn it, and there is nothing we can ever do it destroy it; if His mercy endures for ever, then it is always right there in front of us, to just reach out and take hold of. I tried to explain that as the case for the axe head Elisha made to float, recorded in 2 Kings 6:1-7. It is an odd little story about a building project to add a little more space to the school of prophets dwelling place. If you have been following this blog for any amount of time, you would know by now that I am always looking for the Gospel Message to be hidden in everything; it is there, we just need to look for it, and it can be found. It might be a stretch, but then again, Jesus stretched out His arm to show His great love and mercy for you and me. Why would God simply pour out mercy upon an undeserving people? Simply put, I believe it is because He wants to and because He can! There is nowhere else available to get the kind of mercy that God offers to us, absolutely nowhere else we can turn to, and no one else that has His kind of power to forgive. And the most wonderful news of all, is that He wants to give it to us, freely and undeserved! We just need to ask Him, and then reach out and grab it! Don't let go, because it never gets spent...

"Yes, you who trust him recognize the honor God has given him. But for those who reject him, "The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone." And, "He is the stone that makes people stumble, the rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they do not obey God's word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them. But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. "Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God's people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God's mercy."" (1 Peter 2:7-10) NLT