It's early morning, which is my favorite time of day. Thank you, Kiew, for the invitation to share some good news from our Father. I feel many of our guests are reading and being ministered to by what they read here.
I'm reading from one of Spurgeon's countless sermon messages. Here's a little section of it that points readers to God's mercy—His mercy reaches to the clouds!
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God has sent you His Word, and sent you His servants, to invite you to come back to Him. It is very gracious for God to prepare the way; but it is even more gracious for Him to invite you to make use of that way.
There are, sometimes, cases of necessity when a man thrusts himself upon the notice of another, and seeks his aid in some great emergency. It is a dark and stormy night, and the wanderer, who has lost his way, knocks at the first door he sees, and asks for shelter. But that is not your case. You also are a wanderer, and you need shelter, but mercy's door stands wide open, and God has sent His messengers to invite you to come in. If the door had been closed, it would have been a wise action, on your part, to knock, and ask for admission, or even to cause the kingdom of heaven to suffer violence, and to take the blessing by force. But that is not necessary.
Think then, of the goodness of God, who invites, entreats, exhorts, and persuades sinners to come to Him. Even more, there is a text—a blessed text, I think—which says, "Compel them to come in." The great King bids His servants to seize them by the mighty force of love, and to draw them in with tears and entreaties again and again repeated, until they yield. "Compel them to come in," He says, "that my house may be filled." This is good news indeed.
Such gracious invitations as these make up still more good news, "Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: for I have redeemed thee." "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD; and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." "All manner of sin and of blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men." "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."
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We love Him, because He first loved us.
- 1 John 4:19 (KJV)
