Power and Mercy Are God's

March 16

“God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: that power belongs to God. Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy; for You render to each one according to his work,” Psalm 62:11, 12.

David has heard God speak concerning two of the most essential points required if man is to truly know God. David has heard Him speak regarding His power and His mercy.

The whole earth testifies to the power of God. Anyone who has ever stood before the raging sea in a furious storm knows beyond the shadow of doubting that there is an awesome force behind the soaring waves and the furious winds that drive them.

Anyone who has ever stood frozen in fear as an earthquake shook the ground beneath his feet is aware of the exceeding power of the One who not only holds the earth in the hollow of His hand, but who can shake it at His will. Hebrews 12:25-28 says, "all things that can be shaken will be shaken so the things that cannot be shaken (the truth, the will, the peace, the love of God) will remain."

Isaiah 40:12 states His unfathomable power thusly, “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, or with the breadth of His hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?”

And who of the millions of believers in Christ who have placed their broken lives at the feet of the Lord is not aware of the amazing and vast bridge of mercy that we have found there? It is a bridge we may cross from darkness to light, from despair to hope, from sin to forgiveness, from death to life!

Who among us who has seen a glimpse of the holiness of God has not marveled that such an infinitely pure being can have mercy upon those of us who have been engulfed in sin? Indeed, Isaiah 1:18 assures us, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be washed white as snow.”

The shed blood of Jesus, “…cleanses us from all unrighteousness,” I John 1:7 as soon as we “Walk in the light as He is in the light,” and He enables us to, “have fellowship with one another.”

May everyone embrace the God who sacrificed Himself that we might live. May everyone walk in the power of the immutable Word He has made alive to us, (see John 1:1 and John 1:14.)