God Is Merciful

God Is Merciful “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.” Genesis 3:21 What would we do if our children disobeyed our rules of the family and acted so badly that we asked them to leave? This is the situation that God found himself in when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. Imagine the situation. God’s one household condition had been broken, as Adam and Even had succumbed to the temptations of Satan, and had sinned. God did ask them to leave His garden, but before He sends them on their way He makes them clothes. Even while He was disciplining them He showed mercy on them. No matter what is happening in your life, God will never withdraw His love from you, but will always have mercy on you. Adam and Eve had sinned but God still had mercy on them. There are not any of us who have not sinned and come short of the glory of God, but God will have mercy on us as well. He will not send us out to never be reconciled to Him, as He loves us too much. He will welcome us back into His household with open arms, when we turn our hearts and our lives over to Him. There is a time of reconciliation with Christ that He longs for each of us to find in our own lives. No matter how much we have wandered away from the household, and succumbed to the temptations of Satan, there is nothing that will keep Jesus from accepting us back into His fold. He will have mercy on us, and forgive us of all of these sins, and provide new clothes for us. We all need to know that through faith in Jesus Christ we are all clothed with the presence of God who will never forsake us and who loves to shower us with daily acts of mercy. Romans 13:14 “Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” My Daily Devotional Volume III March 8 Robert William Brock, Jr.