The halfbaked Bard

Eph:2:1-9 Dead. Dead in our transgressions and sins. Disobedient. Gratifying the cravings of the sinful nature. Under the ruler of the kingdom of air. Made alive. By Grace - incomparable riches of His grace. From objects of wrath - made alive with Christ - seated us with Him - in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. By a God rich in mercy . Grace expressed in kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Because of His great love for us. Image credit; https://www.dreamstime.com/heart-symbol-hand-embrace-line-drawing-minimal-contour-art-good-sign-love-wedding-image226789195

Neh:9:31b What a gracious and merciful God you are? This is a God of grace. He deals with grace. And grace is giving you what you do not deserve. You definitely did not deserve eternal heirship, forever citizenship, being seated in the heavenly realm. Yet that has been given freely. Mercy is not giving you what you deserve. Definitely deserved eternal hell, damnation, separation from God. Yes we deserved the whole of it. But God was merciful to us not to have given us that. Grace and mercy meets at the cross. When the last drop of blood of the Son was shed. The Father was not gracious and merciful to the Son. Not that the Father was like the hard Taskmaster who forced His Son to be killed to redeem His servants / citizens. But the Son willfully did. The Father and Son being One, this was their decision. His decision. Grace and mercy overflow  to redeem me. To bring me back to His bosom.

Neh:9:28b Yet whenever your people turned and cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy you rescued them many times. Mercy has no end. Mercy keeps reaching out to you. Mercy is limitless. Malayalam transliteration of PS:136 reads - His mercy endures forever. No matter how rebellious and adamant we are. God is always merciful. The cross covers all our sins - past present and future. He waits always with arms open wide. A merciful Father He is; filled with love and compassion. Desperately wanting you and me back to His bosom. Always. Oh! I am amazed. I am awestruck. Undeserving as I am. He loves me. He is merciful to me. Forever and ever.

Gen 19:16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful.  How many times the Lord has seized our hands and dragged us out, when we were hesitant, adamant in our selfishness? How merciful He has been? How gracious? Not giving us what we deserve and giving us what we do not deserve. What a loving God He is?  Grateful. 

What have I done to deserve such kindness? - Ruth Boaz has been so magnanimous to Ruth. So kind beyond expectations. Ruth thinks she doesn't deserve it; being a foreigner. But Boaz has his own reasons to be generous to her. We are foreigners. We were not part of the fold. We are gentiles. Acts:28:28 So I want you to know that this salvation from God has also been offered to the gentiles and they will accept it. Rom:11:11 God's people- they were disobedient. So God made salvation available to the gentiles. We were a nobody. But in His plan, He has included us. What an amazing love is this? He has His own reason to show kindness to us like this. And His reason is LOVE A love that does not want to lose us, A love that does not want to leave us in hell A love that does not want to seperate from us A love that did the job of redemption For worthless wrecks like you and me The act on the cross is what gives me life A lifeless wretch like has been made alive Enemy, sinner,...