Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. Genesis 19:19
From the story of Lot: the man acknowledges the Lord's mercy through His angels in saving his life, but then turns right around and says how sending him to the mountains will cause his death? If we search the word for an example of 'ye of little faith' this one example can hardly be bested. But then, there is the wife who turned around when told not to do so and became a pillar of salt. Oh, and the two men who married Lot's daughters who thought he was joking when he tried to save their lives. A lack of faith is readily apparent all around this story, but what about old Lot and his shorting the Lord's mercy?
Often we are like Lot in questioning whether the Lord who gave His Son to save us will continue to be merciful to us. As if, somehow, tomorrow the Lord will simply cease being who He is. Jeremiah noticed that the Lord's mercies are new every morning in the Lamentations. We can take note of that as well. But, Little Faith says, if the mercies are new each morning, does that mean God changed His mind overnight? No, no, Little Faith, they are new each morning because we need them like a hungry person needs breakfast.
We pray for a little warming in Christ around our nation,
Bucky
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