Hi, Pastor John:
Your latest blog at www.PastorJohnsHouse.com contains instruction from Psalms about how to wait on God to obtain or receive mercy from God, if mercy is to be given. If the man who wrote that Psalm was trying to get even, or trying to excuse his sin, he wouldn’t have been able to receive mercy, if God granted it. Mercy would have passed him by because his heart would not have been ready for it.
He really didn’t know what God would do, but he confessed his sins to God (he was honest with himself), got still before God, and was asking for mercy from God. What else could he have done if he wanted to be restored? He understood that no one could help him but God.
This Psalm had a hint of Job in it, as far as people watching him to see what happened next. The difference is that Job’s godly heart was being tried, while this man was reaping what he had sown. Still, they both knew that mercy from God was their only help for healing and being restored back to fellowship with God.
This blog put more fear of God in me. It is real and it is life. There are no coincidences. God is fully in control, and if we are not fully trusting in God (as I stated in my cancer story), then we are not trusting in God at all.
Just as God revealed to us who He is by giving the Ten Commandments, he has revealed more of Himself to others in the Psalms, especially about His Son.
This blog is right on time.
billy m.