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Come find your mercy
Oh sinner come kneel
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
We all make mistakes. Some of our mistakes hurt us, some hurt others, and other mistakes may have some challenging consequences. One of the most difficult mistakes to overcome is when we hurt someone else and they have trouble forgiving us for our actions. Maybe we hurt them badly and they are not ready to forgive us, and that makes our own regret run deeper. The good news is that God is always there to accept us and forgive us, no matter what we have done; this is what mercy is all about. Hebrews 4:16 says “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” God doesn’t ask us why we did something wrong, he only asks that we confess our sins. Christ died for all of our sins of the past, the present, and the future; so all are forgiven. Even though our sins are forgiven, we are told to confess our sins. We need to confess to help us stay as close to the father as possible, he wants to know that we are truly sorry for our wrongs. The closer we stay to him and open our hearts to him, the more we feel his love and his forgiveness. It is hard to feel love and forgiveness if your heart is not tuned into God as it should be. So fall on your knees and pour out your heart to God and let him know how much you love him and how sorry you are for the things you have done; feel his love and his arms around you. Remember that mercy is when we don’t get what we deserve and grace is his absolute forgiveness.
Sometimes our sorrow is so deep and so devastating that it causes us to be depressed as we deal with the grief, loss, and failures. We often just want to be alone in our misery and sometimes believe we will never get out of this deep dark hole. This is what intense sorrow is all about. In the bible, David wrote about his sorrow, Jesus shared his sorrows before going to the cross, Paul wrote about suffering, and Isaiah 53:3 even referred to the coming Christ as a Man of Sorrows. God is all powerful and his love is never-ending; there is nothing that he cannot do. To believe that that he cannot heal any sorrow, is essentially saying he is not all powerful and that he has limitations. At some point, sooner rather than later, we need to give the sorrow and the grief to the father. This is always easier said than done, but the sooner we turn our hearts to God and ask him to take our sorrows away, the quicker we start the healing process. Paul tells us in Romans 8:18 “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
Yes, our sorrow and grief run deep, but isn’t it fantastic to know that no matter how bad we feel in our time of despair, that the joy God will give us is beyond our wildest expectations.