A cruel life lesson fit for a stubborn person like me. The longer we forsake and take God's mercy for granted, the more painful discipline we have to endure. Galatians 6:7 even states that we should stop trying to fool God...don't be so detached from reality...we will eventually reap what we have sown. Don't mistake God's mercy as a sign of weakness or a loop hole where He turns his back on our bad choices and ignores us till we come into repentance. He is well aware of our stupidity...He accepts the fact that we are weak and frail...prone to sin...ungrateful and unappreciative...yet He is still willing to hold back the consequences of our sins for a moment...so that we can make the realization of repentance. For me, that is a show of great strength.
Imagine God, holding a big rock on top of us...preventing something that would hurt us big time...holding it long enough for us to realize that we need to move aside! But instead of moving aside...we start pinching God's hand...poking it with our disobedience and arrogance...then God decides to just let it go! We get hurt...then complain! Can you see the wickedness of man? Our lack of discernment comes from allowing the Old Sin Nature to control us!
I tell you...we will never survive this earthly life without mercy. Never attempt to see what is at the end of Mercy!
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