What God's Mercy can do – Part 5

God says, "I will be his father, and he shall be My son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But My mercy shall not depart away from Solomon." II Samuel 7:14,15

We didn't choose God to be our Father, but He chose to be our Father. We choosing means we can break the relation and walk off, but when God chooses the relationship, he never breaks and doesn't allow it to be broken. He adjusts with us to help us. A relation can't succeed unless the people in the relationship work as a team. When one is not performing, other person has to step up and help to fulfill that relationship. Thats how a team is successful.

God knew all our folly and all our sinful habit, yet He chose to be our Father, shows His Mercy is greater that our sins. Bible says, "God's mercy is greater than His judgement." When God has mercy on you, He can't be angry with you. His mercy means, He has chosen not to be angry with you. God doesn't flow in emotions and change is choices, like us humans. God says, "He is not a man to lie." Means, whatever He says, He does it. If He has made a choice to love us and have mercy on us, He will do it, irrespective on who we are and how we are.

But remember, He will chasten us. His chastening doesn't mean, killing you, or making you blind or harming your family and near and dear ones. That is a wrong concept. No loving father will do anything as such to his children. Then how can God do it to you or me, when He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ to die, for us, the greatest sacrifice, He gave His all for us. Once someone gives something/someone dearest to show His love means, that person will never hold anything back. Offering His only Son, Jesus for us shows that there is nothing that God likes to withhold from us. He has given all He had for us and to save the relationship with us. He gave for us to get us the best to get us back to Him, then why will He destroy us. He will chasten us in different ways. He might hold back blessings till we change, but He will never destroy us. The sooner we allow this word and this thought of God to sink in us, the sooner we will love Him and the sooner we will be blessed.

The more we remain in sin, the more we stop our blessings from reaching to us. God's mercy will reach out to you to bring you back. Till you return to God, your Father, you will be like the prodigal son, without authority and blessings. The moment you come back, everything will be restored to you and God's mercy will bring back everything to you again.

God's mercy is a guarantee that God will not leave us no matter what. He will chasten us but will not leave us. Solomon committed many sins and He walked away from God, but God didn't leave Him. God knew all the sins Solomon would commit, yet God chose to love Solomon as His own son. Thats what God is saying to you. He will not leave you, no matter what. He loves you and He has chosen to be your Father. God bless you

– Jimsen & Sneha