Friday, February 16, 2018

Exhortation

Picture this scene for a moment. (Maybe even read it to yourself out loud.)
Jesus is at the top of the Mount of Olives getting ready to descend on a colt. The crowds are gathering, the shouting has started (Luke 19:37). Jesus looks out over the city of Jerusalem.
But oh! As he looks down over the city, not only does he see these multitudes, he sees all humanity - in all their depravity.
Around 600 years before God visited Jerusalem. He sent the Babylonian army. The city burned, the temple was destroyed, and the people were taken away.
But now God has visited again. But this time…. this time….
He doesn’t send an army. He doesn’t send famine, pestilence, fire and brimstone. He doesn’t send condemnation. He sends His son - with MERCY!
As Jesus looks over the city, he knows that within just a few days he will be on the west side of the city walls; on Golgotha; crucified. He knows that out of mercy God will put him through the smiters, the scourging, the nails, the crucifixion and the death. He knows he is about to take away all the sins of the world (John 1:29) out of mercy. And he knows that act will raise him and all that will walk with him, from the dead.
What MERCY!
And that mercy reaches even us.
Hebrews 8:12
For I (Jehovah) will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Believe this gospel and partake of this mercy!
God bless,
Kathie Davidson

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