GOD’S ABUDANCE MERCY

WHAT IS GOD’S ABUNDANCE MERCY?

This is the exceedingly, abundantly, an extraordinary mercy that God shows and grants to those who love Him. This is a kind of mercy which endured forever. Our God is a God of abundance (Eph. 3:20-21) “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” What amazes me is the extremeness and abundant God that we serve; who is much more able to do plentiful and the overflow above that we have ever ask Him or even think of. God’s mercy is as well rich in abundance. Jesus assurance to His disciples was (Matt. 6:8) “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” And prophet Isaiah’s assurance was thus (Isa. 65:24) “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.” This is because of God’s abundance mercy and compassion attached with His unconditional love that He does this.  God anticipates our necessities, and lays the foundation of how to grant the need before asking. He is flexible in this because He knows what he ordained for each one of us at the matrix of our mother’s wombs.

BLESSINGS TO THE GOD OF ABUNDANCE MERCY

I do love the first greetings of each epistle of the Apostles, “Grace to you and peace be multiplied.” This was Apostle Peter’s greetings then he goes further to bless the God of the abundance grace in this manner (1 Pet. 1:3-4) “Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundance mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.” Apostle Peter begins by blessing and praising the name of the Lord who had begotten us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He gave us all things, not that we deserve it, but because of His ‘grace’ to a hope that had first lost to a living one; withholding from us the consequences that we ought to have received from Him because of His ‘abundance mercy’. And instead beloved, Hi did give us an inheritance incorruptible and that does not fade away but everlasting and eternal.  What more do we need from this God?  What makes us fail as believers is that we do focus on the negativity more than the gratitude. Acknowledge and Appreciate Him for the little that He has done to provoke the abundance; And if what we need today, is not met, it is not the end of the world beloved, tomorrow is still a day and “delay is not actually denial.”

GOD’S MERCY TO HIS SERVANT DAVID’S HOUSE

Though David was dead and long buried, yet God’s promise to have a lamp to his house remained in spite of his generation not walking according to the ways of God as did their father David. (1 kings 15:3-5) “And he walked in all the sin of his father, which he has done before him; his heart was not royal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem; because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.” The good that a man does lives after him. The lamp of God was still shinning in Jerusalem during the reign of Abijam, even though he was not wholly devoted to the Lord, nor was his father who reigned before him. God continued to let his light shine in Jerusalem for the sake of David. David, with but two exceptions, had done everything the Lord had commanded him. And as a result, the Lord’s abundance mercy and blessing was still upon Judah in spite of the sin of Abijam and his father.

GOD’S RICH MERCY

 Yes the blood of Christ speaks better things for us than that of Abel or that of animals (Eph.2:4-14) “But God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us a live together with Christ (by grace we have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once gentiles in the flesh-who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were a far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both, and has broken down the middle wall of separation.” The Jews had once enjoyed a covenant relationship with God whereby they had become His chosen people. They were commanded to acknowledge Him as the one and only true God, and live in community as an obedient and holy people. All the nations who were outside this covenant were regarded as pagan or heathens, as enemies of covenants righteousness, and as appropriate recipients of divine punishment. But the Hebrew prophets also promised that God would be great among the heathen, this being fulfilled in the work of Christ. The Gentiles need not to be alienated from God’s grace any longer, because Christ has atoned for human sin, bringing the penitent sinner into the New Covenant of Christ’s blood and giving the assurance of life eternal.

MAY WE EXPRESS THE LAW OF THE BYSTANDER TO ALL

For us to experience God’s mercy in abundance beloved,  we  may likewise express this law of bystander to all; that is being a good Samaritan to the hurting and those who mercy are due to, and not to pass on the other side of the road for heaven’s sake. God’s law by His servant Moses (Deut. 15:7-15) “If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from the poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, , ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin among you. You shall surely give to him and your heat should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land. “If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed; you shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your wine press. From what the Lord has blessed you with, you shall give to him.” The laws of the Pentateuch suggest that God seeks service, obedience, and witness through economic life. Israel’s uniqueness in the ancient world is seen in its laws which unite the worship of God with regulation of interpersonal relationships. God is intensely interested in the poor, and it is the responsibility of the people of God to imitate His concern.  The Old Testament Scripture speaks of a principle which might be called “the law of the bystander” (Prov. 24:10-12).”If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Deliver those who are drawn to death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Surely we did not know this.” Does not He who weighs the heart consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He know it? And will He not render to each man according to His deeds? Failure to render aid where it was possible to do so was a serious offense (Deut. 22:1-4). “You shall not see you brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and hid yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you must not hide yourself. “You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.” Biblical law beloved brethren do not allow us to pass by the poor on the other side! “For blessed are the merciful, for they shall indeed obtain mercy” (Matt. 5:7).

The psalmist noted (Ps. 86:5, 15) “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundance in mercy to all those who call upon You; But You .O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering and abundant in mercy and truth.”  Again he cried (Ps. 69:16) “Hear me O Lord, for Your loving kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.” See also (Ps.103:8) “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.”

Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

“Grace to you and Favor from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all. Amen and Amen and Amen.”