God loves to show His mercy.

Romans 11:30-32 For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience, so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy. For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all. Do you remember what Paul wrote in Romans 9:16? “So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.” God shut up all in disobedience when Adam and Eve fell. Yes, it was Adam who sinned, but it was God at work according to His eternal will and purpose so that Jesus might be glorified in the saints and marveled at by all who believe (2 Thess. 1:10). All mankind, both Jews and Gentiles, came from the same lump of clay. The mystery of the gospel is that God saves disobedient sinners to the praise of His glorious grace and mercy, and He is great in mercy. Paul’s point was that since salvation depends on God’s mercy, He can bestow it as He wishes according to His wisdom. His wisdom is the cross, foolishness to the natural minded Gentiles and a stumbling block to the natural minded Jews. This was so He could bring in the Gentiles through the disobedience of the Jews and then bring in the Jews through the mercy shown to them by the Gentiles. Would any man think of such a plan? Consider that all of us who are Gentile believers are so because God did what He did historically and supernaturally with the Jews and early Gentile believers. The gospel first spread and got its launch around the world through the Gentiles, and it has reached as far as you and me as God has included us in His calling unto eternal life. He is still reaching through us as we live to love with Jesus and share about the mercy we have received. What great mercy we enjoy again today! His mercies are new every morning toward us. Great is His faithfulness. Acknowledgment: Music from “Carried by the Father” by Eric Terlizzi. www.ericterlizzi.com