Blossom Heart: Chadstone - We Survived

Blossom Heart: Chadstone - We Survived

The quality of mercy is not strained.

When we think we've gone too far, done the unthinkable and gone beyond the pale. If we have exhausted everyone elses patience with us. Have reached rock bottom with no where else to go but up, then there is mercy.
Mercy, picks us up and holds us when we don't deserve it, it enfolds us in love when we have been unlovely, wipes away our tears in times of grief and sorrow even if of our own making.
God's mercy and grace make a mockery of Karma. We don't get what we deserve but what God wants to give us. Forgiveness, love, understanding, hope and the knowledge that we are never too far for God not to find us, never too reckless that God can not rescue us. Mercy is by definition for such as these, those who have used up everyone elses patience, hope and trust. For God alone is truly merciful, He alone has the power to love us enough to bend and pick us up.
Had bad news tonight from one I love dearly, who is broken, beaten by their own actions, caught in a nightmare that they can't escape from. I have only two words of comfort BUT GOD...
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"
"Through Jesus Christ all our sins are forgiven"
"Christ came for the sick and lost for those in need not the well and righteous"
When all seems lost - God
When I've gone too far - God
When I'm ashamed - God
When others hate me - God
When I'm so broken - God
When I know it's my fault - God
God's grace and mercy, is not meted out only for those who haven't gone too far, it is for us all because we have all gone too far. Judgement is not yet upon us, but forgiveness is for us now.
Will He take the consequences away? No, but He will help you through, He will make a way, He will undertake for you because He loves you.
Don't spend time in regret, regret is not a positive response, confess your wrong doing and the attitudes of mind that got you here in the first place, repent at the foot of the cross, accept forgiveness and then rest in Him.
Only He can take you on a journey of restoration, turn you back on the path of righteousness so you can get up and live, live for Him, live regardless, live like you have everything to live for because you do.