FRUIT OF MERCY

By Rick Mathes

Romans 9:15 (NASB77) ¹⁵  For He says to Moses, ” I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.”

Thank you Jesus, the police don’t have the rap sheet on me Jesus has! If the police knew all the horrid things I did, I would never get out of prison. Anything I have now is pure mercy. I don’t deserve any good thing. It is entirely by God’s grace that we are saved. We are not capable by any amount of good works to atone for all the filth that lives in us. Thank you Jesus for having mercy on us!

It was His mercy that spares us the punishment of an eternal furnace of flames that we deserve. How do we express our thanks to the Lord but to worship Him in His Righteousness? What can we give Him who has it all? Our Love.

We once were captives of sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, porno and who knows what else but the devil who invents counterfeit pleasures to meet the need? When you drop your Sword, you become vulnerable to the sin of you weakest link. You know what it I and what I am driving at. That dark closet in you must be opened wide to let the light of the Lord in or you will be taken prisoner in your cell of bars or wallpaper. The gate keeper of hades is quite flexible.

All your despairing is moot if you will just step into the foot-prints of Jesus and walk that bloody path with Him. Do you remember when you were lost, abandoned and without hope? Well hallelujah, the tomb is empty and Jesus is alive in you. Now the light can really be seen at the end of the tunnel as Jesus stands there with arms outstretched to holy you close to Him once again.

We were once lost but now we are found: Amazing Grace!

C.H. Spurgeon: “I have often through that if I had read in Scripture, ‘Charles Spurgeon shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.’ I would not have felt as sure of salvation as I do now, because I would have concluded that there might have been somebody else of that name and I would have said, ‘Surely it did not mean me.’ But when the Lord says, ‘Whosoever’ I cannot get out of that circle!”