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In Love and Mercy Jesus Pleads With Us and for Us, Nobember
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Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions
fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22, 23
, NKJV.
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” The Lord honors His
human agents by taking them into partnership with Himself. The heart of Christ is
full of forgiving mercy and truth. He is afflicted in all the afflictions of His people.
We are to be compassionate, and find joy in coming with a kindly interest to bind
up the wounds of those who have been pursued and left half dead by the ruthless
hand of the destroyer. We are to be ready to heal the bruises that sin has made.
Those who do this are Christ’s ministers, and the world has a living testimony
of the love of God before them in His representatives. God is revealed before the
world in those who practice the works of Christ, and through His messengers He is
known as a God of mercy, goodness, and forgiveness. “He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things?”
God in Christ is ours, and His bounties of love and mercy are inexhaustible. He
desires that everyone shall be benefited by the rich provisions that He has made for
those who love Him; He invites us all to share with Him in His glory. The bliss of
heaven has been provided for all who love God supremely and their fellow mortals
as themselves.
Men and women would no longer be the slaves of sin if they would but turn
from Satan’s alluring, delusive attractions, and look to Jesus long enough to see
and understand His love. New habits will be formed, and powerful propensities
for evil will be held in check. Our Leader is a conqueror, and He guides us on to
certain victory.
Our Advocate, Jesus, is pleading before His Father’s throne in our behalf, and
He is also pleading with the sinner, saying, “Turn ye, for why will ye die?” Has
not God done everything possible through Christ to win us from satanic deception?
... Is He not a risen Savior, ever living to make intercession for us? Is He not ever
following up His great work of atonement by the work of the Holy Spirit on every
heart? The bow of mercy still arches the throne of God, testifying to the fact that
every soul who believes in Christ as a personal Savior shall have everlasting life.
Mercy and justice are blended in God’s dealing with His heritage.—
The Signs of
the Times, September 19, 1895
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