"Get Mercy"

"Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud." (Psalms 123:4)

  It might be a very short Psalm, and I believe that there is very good reason. What is the difference between those that are God's children and those that are not? We know mercy! We not only know it, we know where to get it! There was a good reason for the closing Scripture yesterday, because Jesus felt this, yet He still knew mercy, abundantly! He had so much mercy available, that He was able to give it out; yet, He was shown no mercy by those who placed Him upon the cross, even from the Father. That might be a pretty big pill to swallow, but it is the easiest way to show what I was trying to say yesterday. The relief that we have available to us, in whatever situation or trial we encounter, is that it is all short lived and there is something waiting on the other side of whatever we are going through. Our discomfort and pain is only temporary, but the mercy we have available to us is for ever and ever; it seriously has no end! If you want to know what that looks like, the Psalms 103:12 is a really good illustration. Of all the things that God has to offer, mercy is the one that is the easiest to get! He loves to give mercy to those that know that they need it and ask for it. But that is the whole point to this Psalm, that it is a prayer for mercy; prayer meaning that it is a petition to the One that gives mercy, abundantly...

"For which cause we faint not, but though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)