A Plea for Mercy
God does not want anyone to be lost, but he wants all people to change their hearts and lives” (2 Peter 3:9). What of those who die with no faith? My husband never prayed. My grandpa never worshiped. My mother never opened a Bible, much less her heart. What about the one who never believed?
How do we know he didn’t?
Who among us is privy to a person’s final thoughts? Who among us knows what transpires in those final moments? Are you sure no prayer was offered? Eternity can bend the proudest knees. Could a person stare into the yawning canyon of death without whispering a plea for mercy? And could our God, who is partial to the humble, resist it?
He couldn’t on Calvary. The confession of the thief on the cross was both a first and final one. But Christ heard it. Christ received it. Maybe you never heard your loved one pray, but who’s to say Christ didn’t?
from Traveling Light
“O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.”
Psalms 79:8 KJV
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