Brother Michael's Devotional

Romans 3:25 "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;"


Go out tonight and look at the stars. Look at the vastness of the created universe. A God that called this world into existence must be an infinite God. And if He is an infinite God he me must have infinite attributes. He must be infinitely loving, infinitely gracious but also infinitely holy.
An Infinitely holy God by his very nature demands perfection. But you and I can not measure up to God's righteousness. We have transgressed the law of a holy God and his holliness demands absolute justice, the sentence of death. What we need is a place to appeal to the mercy of God, and we have such a place.
Hebrews 5:5 speaks of a mercy seat. That mercy seat was a place where the high priest could intercede for his people through the shedding of innocent animal blood. The word mercy seat is the same word propitiation in Romans 3:25.
Today we have a mercy seat friend. It was not obtained through the shedding of animal blood, but by the blood of Christ. After Christ died on the cross He took all of his literal blood to heaven to the very throne of God and applied it there. And a seat of judgement became a throne of grace.
Let us not go to God on our own merit. I do not want justice from God, I want mercy. 1 John 4:9,10 "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be a propitiation for our sins."