MEDITATIONS
FROM ISAIAH
April 12,
2006
Reading: Isaiah 63:7-8
“I will mention
the lovingkindnesses of the LORD … Which He has bestowed on them according to
His mercies” Isaiah 63: 7-8
Of all the attributes of God, my soul, one stands out as most wondrous in His dealings with you—His great mercy. You know full well that each of His attributes are equal in their magnitude and glory and one does not exceed the other, yet it is His mercy that enthralls you every day and moment by moment.
When you were dead in your trespasses and sins His mercy reached down and lifted you up out of the miry clay and set your feet upon the rock of salvation.
“For as the heavens are high above
the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east
is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us”
And today, as His child, as one born again by the Spirit of God, you are still in need of His mercy because you still sin—“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Each time you sin you violate His Holiness yet in His faithfulness to you He still reaches down and extends His mercy.
“Through
the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, because His
compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great
is Your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I hope
in Him!’”
Thank You Lord for your everlasting mercy. Thank You for hearing my repentant heart
and for extending Your hand of mercy to me so
faithfully.
“So they rose early in the morning and went
out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went
out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, ‘Hear me, O Judah
and you inhabitants of
‘Praise the LORD, for His mercy endures
forever’"
2 Chron 20:20-21.