today as I opened up the Word finally ... after being side tracked too many times...I had this expectation of punishment of needing to be scolded for what I had done and my disobedience to the Lord in so many little things.
... but as I thought about God's mercy, and tried to wrap my mind around this. The Lord gave me a visual. It's like I felt like fire and brimstone were about to fall down on me... when i said "wait! here's the blood of Jesus" and the Lord seemed to say to me gently "oh dear Child, welcome back into my presence"
...and i was immediately reminded of Issac, laying on that alter... waiting to be slain by his father. When the Angel cried "Abraham, wait!" Only to have the blood of the ram replace his destiny.
How precious is the blood of our Lord Jesus, that no matter how many times we fall short, if we present the blood of JEsus before the father we have a way in to His presence, and it's not like we just get to experience a little now that we messed up ... no ... the Lord longs that we would know the fullness of Himself.
How blessed we are to know such mercy and love!!
an encouraging passage of scripture from today....
"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
-Deuteronomy 4:32-40
....more evidence of God's beautiful mercy towards His people :). note that discipline is also a form of mercy.
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