The Merciful King
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We have spent this week looking at different aspects of Christ’s kingship. Today we’ll explore how the Lord is merciful in nature toward us and the world. May you come to treasure the mercy of God in your life as we take time today to explore it. He is truly so good to us, and it is fitting for us to celebrate him in all of his goodness.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 9:13, and today's worship is The Manger by Anne Wilson & Josh Turner.
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| 0:00.0 | We have spent this week looking at different aspects of Christ's kingship. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we'll explore how the Lord is merciful in nature towards us and the world. |
| 0:15.0 | May you come to treasure the mercy of God in your life as we take time today to explore it. He is truly so good to us, |
| 0:23.6 | and it is fitting for us to celebrate Him and all His goodness. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. The ministry of Jesus is laden with acts of mercy. |
| 0:41.0 | From acts of healing and forgiveness to meals shared with those entirely undeserving of his |
| 0:46.3 | attention, his heart was filled with mercy for his people. |
| 0:50.2 | Have you ever thought that God might delight in showing you mercy? |
| 1:02.0 | Have you ever thought that he might delight in showing you mercy? Have you ever thought that he might actually enjoy stepping into your world and offering that which you are wholly unworthy of? Does a good father loathe the times he needs to step in and forgive a child? |
| 1:07.0 | Does the good father always force his kids to toe the line of perfection and offer only harsh words when they inevitably fall? |
| 1:15.6 | The very coming of Christ was an act of mercy. We who were left to try and find relationship under the law discovered our inability to live up to God's standards. |
| 1:26.6 | When left to live by our own strength, |
| 1:29.3 | we quickly reveal ourselves to be made of dust. But Jesus' coming demonstrated a part of God's |
| 1:35.3 | heart we still find hard to believe today. God's desire is to step into the lives of his children |
| 1:42.3 | and offer compassion and forgiveness where there |
| 1:45.3 | is only failure and guilt. |
| 1:48.0 | His desire is to pick us up even after we've made a mess and comfort us, while at the same |
| 1:54.0 | time empowering us to live differently. |
| 1:56.5 | We serve a merciful king. |
| 1:59.2 | Psalm 103 2 through 4 says, |
| 2:01.4 | Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your |
| 2:06.3 | iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns |
| 2:12.0 | you with steadfast love and mercy. Jesus bore a crown of thorns that we might be crowned with his steadfast love |
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