50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

The Mercies Of The Lord
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy,” says the Lord.
“The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth from heaven as the gentle rain,”
So asserts the Sage.
But sadly, in these last days, wars and rumours of wars, nation fighting against nation,
The strong oppressing the weak, the rich intimidating the poor,
Adam’s stock depraved, behaving like animals:
To conquer and aggrandize, power-mad and merciless,
Is the order of the day!
Dark images linger of the gas chambers at Auschwitz,
Of massacres at Nanking, Rwanda et al.
Shades of the “killing fields” of Cambodia;
“Ethnic-cleansing” in Kosovo and Bosnia;
Inter-religious, inter-tribal and racial rioting and killings smoulder on, totally unrelenting!
Hearts are fearful, what with nuclear proliferation and missile-testing adding to the gloom!
We know Thy coming is soon, but “O Lord, how long”
“Hush!” — Know ye not that the Lord is Father of mercies and the God of all comfort”
The Lord indeed is most merciful and gracious, healing the sick, raising the dead;
Forgiving the repentant Samaritan woman at the well;
Mercifully receiving the remorseful Zacchaeus, abiding at his house as an honoured guest;
Giving hope to the hopeless, telling the believing thief,
“Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.”
For His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting!
The Lord’s soon coming is the blessed hope of all believers.
But after the “Rapture” the Lord will return to establish His millennial rule on earth.
Man will not fight man, and the animal kingdom will also enjoy peace:
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
the calf, the young lion, and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them” (Isa 11:6).
True peace, harmony and mercy will then prevail.
“Even so, come Lord Jesus!”
—Elder Dato Tow Siang Yeow
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