by Jason Farr

Created on: September 22, 2010   Last Updated: September 23, 2010

When I think about the goodness and mercy of God sometimes tears well up in my eyes. Yesterday we visited this church that made me emotionally thankful to the mercy of God. See because I can remember back when I was robbed and shot at, on the side of this church. Usually when I am going through something like that and the bullets do not connect, or I do not even get grazed by the bullet I don't even realize how of a close call it really was. But I am telling you, God started to minister to me in such a way that I had no choice but to realize that God's hand had covered me. At that time in my life God was the last thing on earth that I was thinking about.

Testimonies about the goodness of God in spite of our sinful ways are about to bum rush the church, to crush the myth that God is only blessing and watching over the saints.

 I was telling my cousin about this event and he was wondering how I felt going into that church knowing what had happened. This is when the tears of joy slid down my face knowing that God had his hand over my life. See my cousin started telling me of how God worked a miracle in his life over 20 years ago when he had got shot and was suppose to die, even the doctors were mystified at how come he was not bleeding at all when there was a hole in his main artery. The doctors kept taking test to try and figure out why the blood was not coming out, then in the mist of taking the test they discovered that the hole that was once there had been sown up miraculously. At the time just like me my cousin was in the world selling drugs and doing other things of the world that to any outsider if he had died it would have been another deserved death. But God…

 If it had not been for the mercy of God my cousin would have been dead, but back then little did he know God had his hand on him. Glory to God! Glory to God! See the grace of God is coming forth in a mighty way because it is literally the truth of God, and the truth of the gospel. Yesterday when I was at church, God spoke this word in my my spirit. "The letter kills, but the spirit gives life!" The reason why some churches are not seeing the glory of God is because they are preaching too many rules of man as the standard of holiness.

I went to this church for Sunday School and the whole lesson turned into the issue about women wearing dresses, but I have never seen it in the bible where it literally says women are not suppose to wear pants. Legalism kills people whereas the Spirit of God gives life and refreshment. You wonder why I am so convinced about the mercy and grace of God, because I have experienced it personally, and I almost always become teary eyed thinking about how good God really is and how good He has personally been to me! Not only that, but when I realize that God still wants me out of all people to preach His word even after I have messed up so many times, I can do nothing but thank Him! GLORY BE TO GOD!

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