Daily Devotion

July 13, 2006

Psalms 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

From the beginning of time, God had every good reason to destroy the human race. We have challenged Him to His face over and over. We have been contemptuous to Him, cruel to His children; we have abused His mercy, and been indifferent to His Word. How could He ever forgive us? This is, my friend, the grace and beauty of our salvation: that in spite of our contemptible state and despicable behavior, God has enough mercy to withhold His anger and let us live through His Son, Jesus.

Abraham pleaded with the Lord for selfish Lot’s deliverance from the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 18:20-33). Moses pleaded for God to withhold His anger against the idolatrous children of Israel (Exodus 32:10-11); and today, Jesus lives to intercede for us in the face of the Father (Hebrews 7:25).

Let us climb Horeb together. Let us leave the cares of this life in His able hands. Let us go to the place of His habitation. There His mercy will put us in the cleft of the rock Jesus-Christ; His hands of grace will cover and over shadow us while He passes in front of us in all His majesty (Exodus 33:22). God knows that man is weak and cannot sustain His glory. He knows the fire of His righteousness, the light of His brightness, and the beauty of His majesty and yet, God made a way; He made a way for us, consumable and corrupt mortals, to approach Him.

Oh, let us hide today in the Rock of mercy in the Lord Jesus. Let His hands of grace cover our face that we may not be consumed while we are instructed by Him, beholding of the beauty of His glory (Exodus 34:5-6.)

Deuteronomy 18:15-16 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; (16) According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Patrick Lumbroso
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