In King David's kind treatment of the lame Mephibosheth, we see a picture of Christ's mercy toward His people.
Mephibosheth would never have come to David for aid, because there was a natural enmity between them on account of his grandfather King Saul.
David determined by himself to favor Mephibosheth, and he sent and fetched him to the palace.
So too lost sinners to whom God will show mercy will not come to Him because of their rebellion and dead hearts. But God fetches us to Christ.
Mephibosheth came before David with great fear. He humbled himself, and admitted that he was subject to David as his king. He knew that David could cut him off instantly.
Oh that men would humbly appear before Christ as their great Prince! Yet in today's churches, there is a flippancy and casualness with which we urge men to the Savior. We ought to grasp that He is not only the savior of lost men, but He is also the judge and ruler of the earth!
David called Mephibosheth by name! How can the Saints not recall that our Redeemer calls us by name! We were known and loved from eternity past!
Then David commanded, "Fear not!" Oh those precious words must have rolled a heavy burden off Mephibosheth! For now he knew that the King meant to do him good!
Lost men have very good reason to fear the judgment of God! How necessary that we learn to fear that judgment, so that we can taste of the forgiveness and freedom from fear that the Gospel message delivers!
The first mention of fear follows right after the first sin against God in the Garden of Eden.
But all our reasons to fear are swept away when Jesus says "Fear Not!" For He bought our freedom by His blood.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
