“Speak of My Nature, and watch the events supernaturally unfold.”
This blog is a compilation of what God has been teaching me about His mercy lately. It combines poems, songs, spoken words and that which He has done in my own life as of recent.
It does not even begin to scratch the surface of how deep, long and wide His love is.
“O Eve!
My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve,
Do not be ashamed, do not grieve.
The former things have passed away,
Our God has brought us to a New Day.
See, I am with Child,
Through whom all will be reconciled.
O Eve! My sister, my friend,
We will rejoice together
Forever
Life without end.
Sr Columba Guare © 2005 Sisters of the Mississippi Abbey
Image: “Eve and Mary” by Sr. Grace Remington
“You cannot exaggerate the love of God. You can’t exaggerate the kindness or the goodness of God. We exist because of it. We are a result of it. But some of us may not know that yet. But I’m willing to place all of my bets on singing about the nature of God because every single time He shows up and His kindness leads people to repentance. He never steps outside of love to accomplish anything. There is no fear inside of Him because He is God. When He-The One Who is merciful and loves to extend mercy- He is the only One righteous to judge.”
Amanda Cook
“I wrote this from the perspective of Peter, who I’ve also grown to love because we can all relate to him. Often times when we approach God, we want to bring something to the table and think we need to earn it and work for it, especially if we hit a wall of failure, whether that be sin or a dark night in our soul. But it’s what you do in that hour that defines you as a person and as a believer- the humility and courage it takes to receive mercy from the God you betrayed. In Peter’s case, Christ comes back from the dead, and Peter has the courage to look the God he denied in the eye to accept the fact that he knows he’s loved and known by Him better than he knows himself. I can’t fully describe the emotion that story brings out in me. You’d rather Him scream and shout at you and put you on probation, but His kindness just crushes you! We’re not like that with each other- we make each other pay for our wrongs- but God’s not like that at all.”
Misty Edwards
You see, we are never good enough and never will be. We can’t work for it. That’s what makes it mercy. He is full of it. He IS it. He’s loved me too deeply to not speak about it. So many of us write God off because we think He has only come to judge us.
But it’s quite the contrary. Mercy’s definition in the literal sense means to “withhold judgment.” Can you just sit in that for a moment?
I don’t think we have forgotten about God’s mercy, I just think we try to run from it. We don’t understand it. We can’t understand it. It doesn’t make sense.
He is too much. His love and mercy crush us in the most beautiful of ways. He is more than enough and wants nothing more than to fill us overflowing, even at our most underserving. Especially at our most undeserving. That’s the beauty of mercy.
“Why do You love me? Why did You choose me? Why did You decide that no one else on this planet could tell my story better than me? Why are You so good to me? Why are You so kind to me? Why are You so faithful and patient with me? Why, when I break Your heart, do You still orchestrate divine appointments to please my heart? Why, when I continue to make everything else a priority despite Your knocking, do You still choose me? Why do You love me so much?
Because You simply are love. You are kind. You are good in every essence of the word. You are faithfulness with bottomless patience.
You simply are.”
-excerpt taken from today’s journal entry by yours truly
“Mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.”
| James 2:13 |
