Mercy Triumphs over Judgment
Written by Alex Miller, featured for BYMD Women’s Wednesday
Hi, I’m Alex! My husband Erik and I have been married for 4 years, in a relationship for 10, and have known each other for 19 years, we have an almost two-year-old little boy named Pax. God has carried us through this year, which has been the hardest in our life. He has carried us with mercy triumphing over judgment.
Recently God has been speaking to me through the story of Job in the bible, and I would love to share what I have been learning with you!
Everyone struggles with sin. I love the quote “The only difference between the person you judge is that they sin differently than you.” Being a righteous God, perfect in Love, caring deeply for each person, He doesn’t want us to get hurt. In the book of Job, it says when we sin God tells us to listen and repent to make our lives easier, our sin doesn’t affect God, its results affect us.
Job 36:8-12 “But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
he tells them what they have done—that they have sinned arrogantly.
He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Then Job 35:6 – 8 continues with:
If you sin, how does that affect him?
If your sins are many, what does that do to him?Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,
and your righteousness only other people.
It’s not that God doesn’t care about us by not having our sin affect Him. It’s that He’s perfect in love and His mercy triumphs over judgment.
He is patient and kind. He’s not self-seeking. He doesn’t keep records of wrong, He doesn’t dishonor others. He is not proud or envious or easily angered. His perfect love casts out fear. He’s without the darkness of Sin.
God cares so deeply for all of His creation, He says in Job 38:25-27 (God speaking)
“Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain,
or clears the way for lighting,
to bring rain on a land without people,
on a desert without a man in it,
who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?”
He cares for the parched ground!
Job 38:39 – Job 39:2 (God Speaking)
“Do you hunt for food for mother lions?
Do you satisfy the hunger of their cubs?
As they crouch in their den, waiting hungrily in their cave?
Who provides for the raven its prey,
when its young ones cry to God for help,
and wander about for lack of food?
Do you know when the wild goats give birth?
Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?
Do you know how many months they carry their young?
Are you aware of the time of their delivery?”
He hunts the food for a mama lion to feed her babies, he hears the cry of babies ravens, He knows a mama deer’s due date, and watches as she labors through her delivery! —– How much more does he care for us! His children!
He sees all the details, He knows our suffering, He is our deliverer!
Job 36:15-16 “But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction,
to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
So even in our troubles big and small, God sees them all. He knows every detail of them and knows every detail that we don’t know in the present and future. He says to give thanks in all circumstances! After Job’s seven sons and three daughters were killed, his entire livelihood was destroyed, and as he sat scraping the black peeling skin that was covered in sores and boils he says…
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 1:20-21
Job states to his wife “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job 2:10
We need to be able to accept the good from God and the trouble.
Every single person is walking through something known or not known. God created every single person in his image and He loves them equally, remember He is perfect in love. Throughout the story, Job had multiple friends that spoke judgment into his life, and at the end of the book, God rebukes them for their finite judgment and understanding.
James 2:12-13 says “Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
With all this being said, God offers a way out of our trouble and sin. He is our deliverer. He forgives us, and cares about the smallest details. We need to be able to praise Him no matter the circumstances because we do not know His ultimate plan. We need to offer the same mercy He gives to us. We are the same as the people we judge, and who we judge are made in God’s image.
Let mercy triumph over judgment!
Thank you for reading, I pray that God would use this to speak to your hearts as He Has to mine.
Alex 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing how God has been speaking to you through the book of Job Alex, how beautiful to hear His message strongly.
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