Mercy is in play when we need it.

Live it
A young man was like most growing up. The older he got, the more his shell hardened while he listened less and less to his parents. Someone said his parents were rich, but they didn't live like it. On his sixteenth birthday, his Dad gave him a new Bible and said, "Trust in the Lord with all you heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths." The young man listened but didn't care and never cracked the Bible as it just accumulated dust beside his bed.

When the young man was old enough to drive and make his own decisions regarding what to do with his time, he moved away from home and into a bad environment with the wrong crowd. The rest of his life was marked by bad decisions and consequences. He seldom called his parents or cared what they said. He lived many long, hard and miserable years, but for some reason, remembered what his father had told him as a youth. He was now old, in poverty and near death, but he searched through boxes and found his old Bible. He opened it up to the middle, put on his reading glasses and read his dad's encouragment from Proverbs 3:5-6. Stuck between the pages he found an faded old note from his father to his banker. Opening it with shaking hands, he read through his tears, "Please give my son whatever he needs from my fortune."

Pray it
Were it not for mercy, I'd be dead in my sins and sentenced to die. But You saw value in me and gave your only Son so I wouldn't have to. Forgive me for sometime treating your treasure as something of no value. Please, help me redeem my days and serve you humbly, what I should have been going all along.

Resources
Can you prove God did what you know He did? (2000)
Asking questions is the first step in resolution of any problem. (2003)
We don't have to look for Jehovah Shammah. (2004)
Thanks, thirst and trust, the three fundamental attributes of a Christian. (2005)
Devotional (2006)
The most effective prayer is doing it from God's perspective. (2007)
Don't seek justice when mercy is available. (2008)

1. One-minute Devotionals began on January 2, 2006 and are the original creation of James R. Green, Prayertower Webservant Content is derived from his alternating and sequential survey of both the Old and New Testament to offer insight on Scripture.
2. Resources are derived from daily devotions of James R. Green called, Just Thinkin'... (2000-2003), Read the Bible Thru in 365 Days (2004), Pray Thru the Word in 365 Days (2005) and One Minute Devotional (2006-2008).
3. Scripture: God's Word Translation (c)1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All Rights Reserved.

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