[photo-3d] merciful God

["Michael Galazin" <rexlion22@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Susan,

Friday was a fun day for me.  I wasn't working, so I drove to Muskogee for
their Azalea Festival at the town park.  I took my stereo camera and shot
two rolls of slides.  Today I mounted one roll in cardboard mounts, and they
look good.  Lots of pretty pink, white, red, and some almost-lavendar
flowers.  Not just azaleas, but some nice tulips and flowering dogwood
trees, too.  The weather was sunny and in the low 70s Friday, overcast and
upper 60s today.  Ahhhhh!  Feels nice.  I'll have to show you my flower
pictures the next time we're up there.

God heals all who ask Him for healing.  Psalm 86:5 says, "For You, Lord, are
good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon
You."  How could God be abundant in mercy TO ALL who call upon Him, yet
refuse the mercy of healing someone who asked for it?

If God were not as willing to show the mercy of healing to His worshippers
as He is to show forgiveness to His enemies, that would mean He was more
willing to show mercy to the devil's children than to His own.

In the New Testament, many sick people came to Jesus saying, ‘Have mercy on
me,' and Jesus showed mercy (or compassion, same thing) by healing them.
Could the loving heart of the Son of God, who had compassion on the sick and
healed all who had need of healing, cease to regard the sufferings of His
own once He became exalted to the right hand of the Father?  Surely He
continues to have compassion and continues in His healing ministry today.

Jesus is still full of compassion while acting as our High Priest and
advocate in heaven.  Hebrews 2:16-17 states, "For indeed He does not give
aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.  Therefore, in
all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful
and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation
for the sins of the people."  Notice that this verse has no reference to
Christ's earthly ministry, but to His ministry from heaven.  Therefore
Christ's mercy (or compassion) referred to here is that which He shows to us
today, as our High Priest in heaven.

Heb 5:2-- "He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going
astray, since he himself is also beset by weakness."  Jesus experienced what
we are going through.  He does not forget with the passage of time, as men
do.  So His compassion does not lessen either.  He is still as much a
compassionate healer today as He was nearly two thousand years ago.

Heb 13:8-- "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."  He was
filled with compassion and healed all the sick who came to him during His
earthly ministry, so we can be confident that He is the same yet today and
will continue to be the same tomorrow--the same compassionate healer.

Hallelujah!  Christ has been raised from the dead for the redemption of our
spirits, souls (minds), and bodies!

God bless you this Easter and always.

Love,

Mike


 

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