Bat Cave : Call for Mercy

Call for Mercy

We ask God for mercy because the weight of our sin is great.

This is the lyrics to a song called Mercy by Casting Crowns

Here I am a sinner
Broken and in need of You
Take my life and wash my fears away
For You are the Great I AM
Rest assured, I feel Your hand
Holding me until the darkness clears
A Father to the fatherless
Redeemer of my soul
My Life is Yours forever
I want the world to know

Your mercy saved me
Mercy made me whole
Your mercy found me
Called me as Your own

Here I stand a child of Yours
Broken and in need of You
Break these chains and wash my guilt away
Healer of my brokenness
My weary soul will find its rest
You are my strength, the lifter of my head
You're greater than my yesterdays
You hold me close today
You're the Lord of my tomorrows
My heart will always say
You're greater than my yesterdays
You hold me close today
You're the Lord of my tomorrows
My heart will always say

You called me as Your own
You called me as Your own
Thank You for Your mercy
Thank You for Your mercy

You called me as Your own
Your own

Hebrews 4:14-16 “Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”

Been thinking a lot lately about God’s mercy to us as sinful beings and it’s because I have read this one Psalm about 5 times now. This whole chapter is a call for God’s mercy.

Psalm 123

“To you I lift up my eyes,

O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Behold, as the eyes of the servants look to the hands of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to the Lord our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

Be Gracious to us, O Lord, Be gracious to us,

For we are greatly filled with contempt

Our soul is greatly filled

With the scoffing of those who are at ease

And with the contempt of the proud.”

In Luke 18, Jesus tells a story of two people’s prayers. In verses 13-14 we find this.

“But the tax collector stood at a distance He would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast and said `God have mercy on me a sinner’. I tell you that this man rather than the other went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

See the song Great Divide by Point of Grace summed it up well because to understand God’s mercy we have to only look at the Cross of Calvary.

“There’s a bridge to cross the Great Divide

A way weas made to reach the other side

The mercy of the Father cost His son His life

His love is deep, His love is wide

There’s a way to cross the Great Divide.”

In conclusion I want to show you these verses.

Psalm 130:1-4

“Out of the depths I have cried to you, O Lord

Lord, hear my voice

Let your ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.