Why we need to Call upon the Mercy of God.

Why we need to Call upon the Mercy of God.

God in His eternality is infinitely Holy. We as His creatures are finite and by nature sinners. We need to calł upon the mercy of God because as sinners we deserve hell. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. We need to realize that we are nothing in ourselves and it is God who deserves our praise and our adoration. Pride was the fall of Satan, and it can be our fall too. Stubbornness and unbelief kept the Israelites in the desert for 40 years, as their refusal to obey God. We need God's mercy, because without it we live like rebels deserving of God's judgment and wrath.

God's mercy is infinite and we need it to survive this trial that the world is facing right now. I have wondered why the world doesn't believe in God's mercy and I have concluded that they feel they don't deserve it (Which is why God gives it.) God gives some people a very hard life, and He gives others a relatively easy life, but when we are faced with problems we don't have the strength or solution to solve, it is very easy to forget God's mercy! God desires to give us His mercy, but we must acknowledge that we need it. Mercy is an attribute of God, and when we ask for it He withholds the punishment that we deserved.

This is what God did through Jesus, He offers us His mercy and we need to accept it. When we refuse mercy, we are saying we can handle our problems on our own and we don't need God's help. This spells our own disaster, and we can't blame anyone else if we are suffering after we refused God's mercy. We should never be afraid to receive God's mercy in our lives. Sin blinds us from this truth, and we go on our own desert journey because when we refuse the mercy of God, he leaves us to ourselves. Hell will be filled with people who refused the mercy of God. Satan blinds us of our need of God's mercy, because the moment we fully understand His grace, our fears will leave us. God has nothing to offer us if we reject His mercy. This should frighten us into calling on God's mercy to help us. God, be merciful to me a sinner. This is Mike.

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