Mercy Found Me

He brings you new life. I never fully knew what that signified when I was younger. I understood that you make the decision to follow Jesus and try your best to be like Him. I wouldn’t truly grasp what new life meant until I had felt the weight of being right in the mud. How incredible and such a blessing is that you can be so full of shame and guilt and suffering, and He can come along and wipe it all away. Clean your slate and make you new. How fortunate are we that we have a Father that loves us that much? It is said that He creates beauty out of ashes. That He can take something so torn apart and worn and make it bloom. That’s what He did with my muddy self. I do not remember how i had got there to start with. It did not feel right...It did not look right. I knew better. I had to find my way out but i did not know how. In life, almost all of us have “muddy” moments -  moments when we experience pain or trials that are deep and thick and so very hard to...

This is the story of how God’s mercy found me.  How His goodness and grace have redeemed and restored   even me .  May you know the hope that God can, and will, do the same for you! People have been wondering and some outright asking how i made it to be the person i am today. My all time answer is that "mercy found me!" It's cliche' how most people would rather say they found God. Does it even sound right? Conceivably  it depends from which side of the pendulum you might be swinging from. From my side it is erroneous to state that God found me. Perhaps since God has always been there loving us from the word go. But God,  being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurab...