All About Him

DEVOTION
ROMANS
ALL ABOUT HIM

Rom 11:33
32 For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
NIV

It seems strange to me we I read this in the sense of God binding me to disobedience. Yet I do see the truth of this. If in fact I was a perfect human being, a person that somehow was able to obey every aspect of God’s law, then there would be no need for Jesus to ever come to die on the cross for the redemption of my soul. But this was God’s plan from the very beginning and somehow that strikes wonderment in my thinking. Why would He do this? Why would He create mankind with the inability to be obedient? Why would He make Adam in such a way that Adam would fail? Ah, yes, of course, it is not about Adam, it is not about me, it is all about Him. I needed to be able to be shown, it is all about God. That He is the one and only hope for me. I needed to see that I cannot in any way be true and pure within myself and completely able to obey Him in all aspects of His law. I needed to see that it is all about God having mercy on me. I know this now, but surely did not before experiencing God in my life. I think many people are like that. Many people do not see how it is about Him, in fact they may even say, He is so self centered. But I know, and I am absolutely completely totally content with it being all about Him. If it were not then I would indeed be in a horrible condition. Thank you Lord, for making me in such a way that I need you mercy so that you receive all the Glory and Honor and Praise.