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Mercy More than We Know

Pause and wait for the mercy you need more than you know.

Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!

  - Psalm 25.6, 7

This is why I should give thanks to God without ceasing – because He has often been lenient with my foolishness and my carelessness. And because on more than one occasion He has not been wrathful with me, who was given to Him as a helper but who did not quickly accept the task which was made clear to me nor do as the Spirit prompted.

  - Patrick, Confession, Irish, 5th century

The bad news, as Jack Miller used to say, is that we’re worse than we think.

But the good news is that God is more gracious and merciful than we will ever know.

We blithely go about our daily activities piling up sins of jealousy, lust, meanness, wastefulness, indifference, self-indulgence, and hordes more, and we think little or nothing of it. We are so unremittingly sinful that sinning becomes a way of life to which we become all too easily inured.

Most of the sins we commit never come to confession. We’re just that hardened and sloppy about our spiritual lives. But the Lord knows, and He is able to show grace, patience, and mercy – and does so – more than we know, more, typically, than we ever stop to give thanks for amid the busyness and distractions of our lives.

So why not pause just now and reflect on the fact that God, through Jesus Christ, does not regard your sins with wrath, but with mercy?

It is good to take time during the day to allow the Spirit to search our souls and bring to the surface any attitudes, thoughts, or deeds – done or undone – that offend the holiness and love of God (Ps. 139.23, 24). Then we will realize that His mercy is ever at work toward us, and we will be moved to offer more love to Him.

Patrick was overwhelmed, convicted, transformed, and greatly emboldened by considering the mercy of God. What worked for him can work for us as well.

Psalm 98.2-6 (Duke Street: “Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord”)
Now is God’s saving mercy known; His glory to the world is shown.
Faithful and kind is God our Lord; earth has the Name of Jesus heard.

Raise to the Lord Your loudest voice! Break forth and sing! Rejoice! Rejoice!
Praise, praise to You, our God and King with all our hearts and strength we bring!

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your steadfast love and faithfulness. Make me more sensitive to my sin.

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T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.
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