"He Delighteth"

  "He Delighteth"   

   

    

     "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?  He retaineth not His anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy" (Micah 7:18).

      God loves to forgive, so much so that He delights in the bestowal of mercy.  Indeed, to the degree we find it difficult to bestow grace upon our offenders, our Heavenly Father rejoices when we seek His pardon and cleansing.  "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him" (Luke 15:18-20).  The sublime truth of the matter proclaims that God desires to forgive us far more than we desire to be forgiven.  Thus, His Spirit must call us to the Blood-stained altar of the Lord Jesus Christ whenever we need forgiveness and cleansing lest we ignore His great desire to restore us and our great need to be restored.

There is a place of forgiveness and grace,

our God delighteth in mercy.

For all who will come by the way of the Son

will find His pardon so plenty.

He delighteth, our God delighteth, 

He delighteth in mercy.

Blood has been shed, Christ is risen from the dead,

our God delighteth in mercy.

Fall to your knees, His forgiveness receive,

our God delighteth in mercy.

He delighteth, our God delighteth, 

He delighteth in mercy.

     So long as we come by the way God has made, the way of the crucified, risen, and ascended Lord Jesus, we may come in times of sin and failure with full confidence of receiving forgiveness and cleansing.  "There is forgiveness with Thee" (Psalm 130:4).  Our Lord beckons us in such times, and He so delights in mercy that He gave His Son to a terrible cross in order to make pardon freely available to the fallen and the guilty.  Thus, we grieve His heart and our own by wallowing in unconfessed, unrepentant sin.  "He delighteth in mercy."  May the blessed truth call us home whenever we wander, and as we begin our journey, let us lift our eyes to see our Father running toward us with compassion, with joy, and with full pardon, cleansing, and restoration.  He delighteth…

"Joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth."

(Luke 15:7)

Weekly Memory Verse

    And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock.

(Exodus 33:21)