Mercy: Have Mercy On Me
It's Sunday.
No teaching today. No deep dive. Just one verse, from the Psalm David wrote after everything we walked through on Tuesday, at the end of a week about mercy.
This is the prayer he prayed once mercy had already reached him. The prayer of a man who had done the worst thing he could have done, and had been forgiven, and could not stop putting it into words.
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions." - Psalm 51:1
Read it slowly.
Notice the ground he stands on. He does not ask for mercy on the basis of his good deeds. He does not ask on the basis of his regret. He does not ask on the basis of what he will do differently going forward.
He asks according to God's unfailing love. According to God's great compassion.
That is the only ground any of us has ever had. Whatever week this has been, whatever this week surfaced about the people you have withheld mercy from, whatever you saw about the defences you have kept up, the ground of your request does not change.
You come to God today on the same ground David came on three thousand years ago. His unfailing love. His great compassion. Not yours.
You are not asking him to be who he isn't. You are asking him to be exactly who he has always been.
Rest today with that.
Whatever you carried into the week, put it down. Whatever mercy you have withheld, let today be the day you stop. Whatever mercy you have refused to receive, let it in this morning. Not because you have earned it. Because he is who he is, and his chesed endures forever.
YOUR ONE THING FOR TODAY
Pray Psalm 51:1 out loud, once, slowly. That is enough for today.
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father, thank you for this week. Have mercy on me, according to your unfailing love. Not according to what I have done, or feel, or deserve. According to who you are. I rest in that today. Amen.
OVER TO YOU
What stayed with you from this week? A word, a line, or nothing at all. Every reply welcome.
God bless you, my friend.
The LowKey Christian
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