Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:7 KJV)

     Our LORD has set the pattern for going beyond the ordinary on behalf of His people.

     Of that we are assured in the excessive, the abundant, pardon of God.

      And that is why the Bible speaks to the wicked with these words, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon (Isaiah 55:7 KJV, emphasis mine).

    We are assured of the excessiveness of God not only with reference to His pardon but also with reference to His power.

     This excessive nature of our Lord on behalf of His people was illustrated at the Red Sea when His people went through that sea on dry ground, not through shallow water and not on wet soil, but on dry ground.

     We are assured of the excessiveness of God not only with reference to His pardon and His power, but also with reference to His thoughts.  That is why He said, For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9 KJV).

     We are assured of the excessiveness of God not only with reference to His pardon, His power, and His thoughts, but also with reference to His provision of more abundant life.  That is why He said, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10).

     But there is more, and this is perhaps the ultimate excessiveness. It is the reality of deliverance and of exaltation in the two-fold excessiveness of God.

     Our LORD has not only delivered us from the power of darkness but He has also translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son… (Colossians 1:13).

     The same excessive nature of God appears again in Revelation 5:9-10 when the redeemed sing not only of their redemption but of their being made unto God kings and priests.

     That is a brief look at the excessiveness of our Lord. It is enough to let us know that we should never fear of falling short of His provision for our victory in Christ.

Dr. Robert L. Alderman

Writer for “Real Victory for Real Life” 
365 Devotional Thoughts in the Spirit of America’s Keswick
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