GODLY CORRECTION / Mercy Seat

This is the 1^st of 7 devotions with the theme

From 1 Corinthians 13:5

"Love Does Not Insist On Its Own Way”

GODLY CORRECTION
(Adapted from Hebrews 12:1-12; 1 Corinthians 13:5;)

Our society is in need of correction – both on the giving side and the receiving side. It is important to give godly correction, and to do so we must be willing to step out of our comfort zone and speak truth in love and even at times confront enemy territory. It is equally important to receive correction. We must be willing to humble ourselves and admit that we are wrong and someone else may be right. If we are willing to receive correction, it will make our life better in the future. It can be the difference between health and sickness or wealth and poverty. In fact, it could be a matter of life and death. And if we are willing to give correction, it could save someone else's life.

At my house we call the seat of correction, the Mercy Seat. 
I have sat in the Mercy Seat many times and my daughter takes her place in that seat from time to time. In that seat, truth is spoken and acknowledged, repentance is made and mercy is given. If it were not for this seat of correction, my life would be a mess and my daughter would be out of control.

I recall being corrected by a person outside of my family some years ago. This person felt that my husband and I had violated him and we needed to be corrected. As we sat and listened, his words were not completely contingent to how we saw the circumstances and it rose up in us to reject his correction. We began to protest and give our own view and opinion. But then we stopped and looked at each other and said, "What if he is right?" We chose to humble ourselves and submit to what might be God's correction through this person. Although his view was different from ours and his words were not as politically correct as we thought they should be, we put ourselves in the mercy seat and received his correction. The result is this person is a friend of ours today. We shudder to think what might have happened if we did not choose to sit in the mercy seat of correction and humble ourselves. It might have been something much worse than losing a friend.

Father, thank you for Your Mercy Seat. Your Mercy Seat is the seat of Love. Your Mercy Seat extends to eternity and I plan to sit in it forever and ever. Thank you ever so much for Your eternal Mercy Seat. I receive all that it has to offer to me.

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Devotion authored by RebeccaAnnCooley

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MERCY SEAT

(Adapted from Hebrews 12:1-12; 1 Corinthians 13:5; Exodus 25:17-22)

Verse:

The covering on the Ark of the Covenant 

Where the high priest sprinkled the blood of the atonement

For the sins of Israel on the Mercy Seat

Chorus:

Jesus is sitting in the mercy seat 

When I confess my sins He faithful and just

And now I’m sitting in the mercy seat, 

Forgiven, I forgive, when I am sitting in the mercy seat

So live and let live when you are sitting in the mercy seat

Bridge 1:

There is a chair in our house that we call the mercy seat

Anyone who sits there gets correction and forgiveness 

That is so complete

Bridge 2:

Blessed is the man who does not sit in the seat of the scorner

But his delight is in law of the Lord in mercies corner

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WordsAndMusic by KentCliffordCooley

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