The Fidelity of God’s Mercy
In all our weakness, there arises the power of God’s mercy
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All mankind in life’s temporal journey needs clear decisions to go through the faculty of spiritual nothingness to be able to answer to the equanimity of the heart. For no one can free the sorrows and sentiments in our hearts completely – not our spouse, not our friends, not our significant other, no pastor, no priest, no elder, no family members, no one - because God is our only permanent refuge that will accomplish our dependency in finding Him who gives Himself generously to us through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our own misery begins to exert itself to pass away as our spirit awakens our place with Abba, our Father. Surrendering to God in the midst of suffering is not easy; faintly pressing on a transient storm deceives readily if pride and stubbornness daunt our nothingness.
That moment seems impossible; for waiting receives its own defined opinions. The flurry of efforts within its own power dispenses demands that struggle aimlessly. Exhausted, our tapered hearts, lonely in darkness and affliction, can no longer depend on human thoughtlessness but solely submit an entreaty to God’s continuous mercy.
Our hearts begin to receive light that these things in cloaks of discomfiture would cease to agitate our being for God opens up His hand of mercy inclined over us. Bearing in mind that our hearts are pursued by the grace of God that strives to reveal Himself to us, in Him we are safe, in Him we have everything, in Him we are guarded and taught to reflect with profound knowledge, in Him we are convinced by His truth and in Him we shall live in peace.
And that is not all, as a deeper union exists between God and mankind; His goodness transforms our hearts to a higher state of spiritual nothingness so the Lord God will fill our longing for Him.
Everything here on earth reflects a fading strength; all created things find imperfections becoming stronger because demands of human bodies and exterior greatness run dry. Time passes away even before we die. Such intense reality exceeds our strength that collapse next to nothing. Although the world is fixed against this reality, a diminutive ordeal intoxicates joy and peace.
In comparison, though everything in the outward is evanescent and restless, God fulfils an ardent comfort for those of us who take heed of His word and remain in His refuge. The state of nothingness learns to reach out for the source and depth of conciliation with God. His genuineness enters the faintest heart though it may be indifferent to His loveliness.
Peace is often challenged when happiness is built upon a feel-good experience; for the pursuit of such momentary happiness becomes an aspiration for a restless world that greatly contrasts to the infinite joy that is only found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer is not just once and hoping for God to strengthen us for a moment and as soon as things improve and progress, we will not think about praying anymore. Prayer is ardently and unceasingly yielding our thirsting heart to God. During a moment that we depend on prayer so that we can be nourished by the goodness of the Lord God, or choose to believe that God can do enough for us, God longs for us to know Him deeper with love that will grow stronger than just for that moment.
Prayer accompanies our thirsting heart because it offers an effect on patience and hope; that depends on God despite our powerlessness, hopelessness and reproach on life. God communes in the profundity of our soul when we remain in Him in prayer. Prayer is not about looking at God when we can count on Him to carry out certain matters according to our limited intellect and will.
Nothing is concealed when we stand before the throne of God because God’s divine light desires to satiate our whole being to continue in friendship with Him.
God desires for mankind to be dependent on Him only for the strength of mankind is nothing to know its own miseries. Prayer manifests trust that endears us to lean on Him all the time.
Waiting for a prayer to be answered invites us to enclose our hearts persistently into the depth of God’s wisdom where seeking for truth will set us free – for while we wait; we are given a new knowledge and a new mind which is far more delightful than an answered prayer!
Unworthy prayer is like a shadow that remains wrapped up to keep up in an effort to ask God to deal with certain difficulties without living and keeping an awareness and purpose of an affliction. We can witness the complete miracle and see God’s glory at such times while gaining deeper knowledge on the cause of our pain when God endows His mercy upon us.
Prayer is a time to exercise silence however forceful the exterior may be. People do not like to pray because hardship withdraws them from Jesus’ deity and keeps them under the influence of faithlessness and unfaithfulness. People do not commit to prayer life because mankind wants to see to believe. However we know that God is spirit, for He is an invisible God.
The love of God is so great and uninterrupted that He patiently waits for us without depriving joy and peace needed for our sanctification. We must resolve not to undertake the discipline of being religious by depending on ourselves to become an outstanding soul. The strength of this experience may leave souls into obscurity as such discipline devoted to performance-worthy simply gazes towards a shadow of liberation rather than magnifying God’s wondrous mercy.
The proportion of effort people figure out for their lives and pursuing quick results is worthless and suffocating. Vainly, people try to but will never comprehend their ambiguity but all that remains; is having enough courage to focus on the good news and hope on the promises it holds.
Contrary to what great importance mankind puts in things, it reaches to a point where people will examine, deliberate and determine that it is time to flee from trifles. The soul accepts God’s invitation by seeing to important matters for the greater glory of God and for the sanctity of the soul.
People would rather submit to forces that could not keep souls satisfied unlike God’s wondrous power that exists out of His pure love for us.
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About the Book
The Fidelity of God’s Mercy looks closely at God’s faithfulness even though His love is unrequited from mankind.
This book conceives a beautiful reflection about being a dwelling place for God and finding ultimate rest that God has prepared in the most hidden place in our soul.
God is interested in us, even in every minute of our existence. Down to the last detail of our weakness, God notices every moment of our lives. For in weakness itself, the book offers much insight and knowledge on God’s light that illumines over human thoughtlessness and frees our little minds.
The reflections in this book invite us to look deeper into God’s divine power to live joyfully and to receive the Lord’s favour when we give mindfulness to the conditions of our soul.
If only we are sensitive to understand there is a divine message in each adversary, we will learn to lean on God with great trust that begins the approach of God’s great mercy who watches over our trials and tribulations unceasingly.
As we keep close in Christ, He protects our perseverance from an impending danger, an approaching trial or a hindering odd and the outcome of God’s mercy reveals to us is joy, peace and hope.
About the Author
Sarene Seet was born the youngest of three daughters and was raised in Singapore. She is married and presently lives with her husband and three lovely children.
Sarene constantly contemplates about the life of the Lord Jesus Christ and began to write in her journal on her spiritual experiences and encounters concerning God’s mercy and divine interventions.
Accepting her inner calling to celebrate this message faithfully to the whole world, she takes hold with great care to complete this task to follow Jesus.