“Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
The above verses might be the most encouraging in all the passages we can read. God wants to show us His compassion. Because of his great love for us, He wants to show us that love by “abundantly pardon” our sin. That is the story of the entire cannon of Scripture. God wants to save mankind from himself. He wants to show him compassion by giving him a full pardon for his sin and sin nature. No one has even thought of that in man’s religious systems. To receive this great compassion of God we must seek in (in faith) and turn from our wicked ways (again, in faith). This is the story of the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all tells us the story of Jesus’ walk and work on the cross. The theme of the Epistles is the doctrinal teaching about the work Jesus did and how it applies to our hearts. What it all boils down to is that God wants to save people from their certain destruction. That is the Gospel and the theme of the entire story of God’s love.
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