“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.” Isa 54:7
The promised covenant of the Lord is that the church would no more face the wrath of desolation, but rather the work of restoration through Jesus. In such a great promise we must remain humble knowing the Father's wrath is still justified by our actions. It’s by his great mercy (getting what we don’t deserve) that we can rejoice in his promised restoration. Our sin had provoked the Lord to hide his face for a moment (vs 8), but with his everlasting kindness and mercy our redemption rises with the promise of the morning sun. Never again to face the desolation of the Days of Noah (vs 9), but instead able to rejoice in the promise and eternal work of Jesus who bore the wrath for our sin and shame. Every ransomed soul owes his salvation to this promise and to the fact that during our days of sinning God keep the door of mercy open, refusing to accept any of our sinful acts as final. Only through God’s infinite mercy is he able to devise a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can still be triumphant… Jesus! The divine justice that was accepted as an equivalent atonement for the wrath due us. The Lord tells us that time and matter will depart, but his covenant of peace and mercy will never be removed (vs 10). The mercy of God is the hope we have as an anchor for the soul (Heb 6:19)
A morsel of God’s mercy is greater than a mountain of our mistakes. (Lam 3:22-23)
HSAY… Todd
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