A Reason for Mercy
- golibertybaptist
- May 15
- 2 min read
When God called all the animals together for Adam to name, it was a lesson in taxonomy. The name Adam called each one was not of grave importance. The important lesson Adam learned was about himself. He was different. He could reason.
Our ability to reason is one example of how we bear God’s likeness. Because of this likeness, God invites us to commune with Him. Reasoning from the natural world will put us on the pathway to God and peace with Him. God is in the world upholding it all by His power and nothing exists except as it shares His existence.
Knowledge of God is more than a philosophical exercise. It’s more than knowing or even proving that God exists. None of these things, in and of, themselves is what God wants. God wants a loving relationship with us. He loves us, and made us like Him so that we may have true fellowship with Him. He seeks for those who will freely, lovingly return His love and unite with Him.
Everyone seems to know God is love. What we neglect to consider is that God is perfect love. That is, His love is perfectly just, perfectly true, perfect from Alpha to Omega. He made us for fellowship in His perfect love. We are not worthy of it and as imperfect creatures cannot make ourselves worthy. By grace, God makes us worthy through the atonement of Christ. He asks one thing from us. Accept the offer of His grace by acknowledging Christ as Lord through surrender to Him.
Isaiah uses the imagery of the Mercy Seat to explain how this works. In the Ark were three things, the tables of the ten commandments, a pot of manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded. Three scarlet symbols of man’s rejection of God. The high priest sprinkled blood on the Mercy Seat the “lid” of the Ark. Looking down from above the Mercy Seat and through the red blood, the red sin looked white. Christ’s blood, shed for us, makes the scarlet stain of sin white as snow.
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