October 29, 2013
In the book
of Mark chapter 8, Jesus saw the multitudes that have been following Him for
almost three days without any food. He was moved with compassion and told the
disciples to go get food for the people to eat. After much deliberation, the
disciples got seven loaves of bread and few small fishes. This was enough to
make Jesus have the people go get themselves food in the city, but because of
mercy, four thousand people were fed with seven loaves of bread and few fishes
and there were seven extra baskets left.
A candidate
of God’s mercy is a candidate for glory. Mercy overrules protocol. Mercy makes
the “never has this happened before” happen. Mercy brings to existence newness.
Mercy suspends the norm. The moment blind Bartimaeus heard that Jesus of
Nazareth was in town, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, thou son of David,
have mercy on me.” Despite the rate at which people were asking him to keep
quiet, he kept shouting and crying and screaming, “Jesus, thou son of David,
have mercy on me.”
The cry of
mercy makes the ear of God tingle. The moment Jesus heard the cry, Bible says,
Jesus stood still and gave the blind man
a blank check - What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? As a result of
mercy, the woman in Matt 15 stopped eating crumbs and started eating the
original.
The mercy of
God is one of the channels through which God’s blessings locate us faster than
usual. The mercy of God is not a product of your works or righteousness; it is
solely dependent on God. Heb 8:12 says, “For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” Many
miracles performed by Jesus were borne out of mercy not as a result of the
righteousness of the recipients.
Father, I ask today that You have mercy on
me today.
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