Rescued by God’s Mercy

 “And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.”

‭‭John‬ ‭8‬:‭8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

When the scribes and the Pharisees brought the woman caught in the act of adultery to Jesus to stone her to death, He stopped down and wrote with His finger on the ground.  Then Jesus told them that those without sin must be the ones to throw the stone first.  Then He bent over again and wrote some more words in the dust.  Jesus fulfilled what Jeremiah had written, “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”  All the accusers were guilty of having forsaken God, the Fountain of Living Water, and yet were so anxious to stone the woman to death.  Their hypocrisy had blinded them, and they had forsaken the LORD.  The same Hand that wrote the Ten Commandments wrote the names of these hypocrites in the dust.  God’s mercy will never touch hypocrites.  Let’s not live life in double standards ever for we will never understand God’s mercy.  Amen!