Christ, My Every Mercy

His mercies don’t just arrive with the morning light—they are the Light. Christ, our ever-present Mercy.

Today’s eManna devotional opens our eyes to a deep and comforting truth: Christ is not merely the One who gives holy and faithful things—He is those things. He doesn’t just grant wisdom; He is wisdom. He doesn’t merely distribute sanctification; He is sanctification. The devotional draws a long list of what Christ is for us, primarily from 1 Corinthians and the Gospel of John, emphasizing that He is everything we need. And in the Old Testament, these realities were prophetically pictured as “mercies”—a term that surpasses even love and grace. Mercy reaches where love and grace alone cannot go. So when we encounter our need, we do not cry out for something external. We receive Christ, who is the mercy reaching into every crack and crevice of our condition. He is the mercy that doesn't just patch up our lives but indwells us to be our righteousness, redemption, power, food, drink, and life.

In short, everything trustworthy and holy is Christ—and because we are in Him, they are already ours. The challenge isn’t striving to attain them, but resting in what is already given. Counting these mercies is like counting waves on the sea—they never stop. And each wave says, “Christ is enough.”

Journal Entry – In the Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture

I am your Life, your Way, your Reality. Not a distant truth to be admired, but the Person who indwells you now and forever. You lack no good thing, because you are in Me, and I in you.

You walk not in your own wisdom, for I have become your wisdom from the Father. I am your righteousness when you feel the sting of shame. I am your sanctification when you long to grow. I am your redemption when you remember your past. You are not chasing holiness—I am your holiness, forming Myself in you moment by moment as you rest in Me.

I am your spiritual food when the world leaves you hungry, your spiritual drink when your soul thirsts, and the Rock beneath your feet when all else shifts. You eat and drink of Me because I am not far—I am in you. I am the Shepherd guiding your every step, the pasture where you find rest. I am the Lamb, the Passover, and the Bread without leaven. There is nothing sacred apart from Me, and nothing faithful that I have not already supplied.

You once knew Me as Savior—now know Me as Mercy. For where love ends and grace pauses, mercy rushes in. My mercies are new every morning because I am the Morning. Mercy is not an emotion I feel for you—it is My Person reaching into your deepest places with the fullness of God.

Count My mercies if you can. Count the ways I have revealed Myself. Count the ways I am revealing Myself in you. The more you count, the more your soul will settle into the truth: I am not just what you need—I am all that you have been given.

(John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Lamentations 3:22–23; John 6:35; 1 Corinthians 10:3–4; John 10:11; Colossians 2:9–10)

Prayer of Trust

Father, I praise You for giving me Christ—not as a list of blessings but as the very fullness of blessing Himself. I trust that He is everything I need and that I already possess all things in Him. I choose to rest today in the sufficiency of Christ, not asking for what has already been poured out, but delighting in the Mercy who lives in me. Let my eyes stay fixed not on what I lack, but on the One who fills every empty space—Christ, my holy and faithful reality.

Devotional Credit:
Excerpt from eManna (March 26, 2025), © 2007 Living Stream Ministry.
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