Thank God For His Mercy

Last Sunday evening I preached a message taking the text from one of my favorite passages of Scripture,

Lamentations 3:22-26 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

You don't have to know the context of that passage to know that it is true if you truly understand the depravity of man and you understand anything about the character of God. He is holy and demands a holiness from us that we cannot produce by ourselves. The Lord's mercies are forever great.

However if you read the book of Jeremiah and see the spiritual condition that the nation of Israel is in at that time its is even more clear as to why Jeremiah was appreciative of God's mercies. They were worshiping other gods and had even stooped to offering their children as sacrifices and it was prophesied that when Jerusalem was to be besieged they would stoop even lower and indulge in cannibalism. Wickedness abounded.

Even though the first part of this chapter in Lamentations he is lamenting over his personal struggles as a result of the sins of the nation and not his person sins. It is in this context he boasts of the mercies of God. And realizes that his hope and the hope of the nation lies in the salvation that only God could give.

Our nation is in a similar turmoil. There is greed and corruption at the highest levels. We are openly condoning what God says is an abomination to him. And we are justifying killing millions of babies for the sake of woman's right to control her own body. I don't know what the future holds for America. I definitely don't like the direction it is headed but I know if we survive at all it will not be because a certain political party control the Congress and White House but because of the mercies of God.