Today's verse is Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
I have often wondered about this and could not myself understand this “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:” for does not the sacrifice provide the means of obtaining God’s mercy? We know from Samuel as he rebukes Saul, that obedience is better than sacrifice, but with obedience is mercy needed? It is in Hebrews that we receive what Hosea was speaking of here. It is not from our own sacrifices that we obtain mercy, but by the sacrifice that God himself made for us when Christ took our place on the cross. The Author of Hebrews compared scripture with scripture to find the answer, and it was David that provided the counterpoint to understand what that meaneth, “I will have mercy and not sacrifice,” and “Then said I, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.” Selah [Think on this.] Amen.
To God be the Glory
Scott
Tomorrow's Reading will be Joel, Matthew 10
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