Have You Cried Out for Mercy To Jesus? If You Do Not In This Life; You Will Surely Will In The Next Life! Then, It Will Be Too Late! A Point To Ponder . . .

Blind Bartimaeus crying out for mercy for Jesus to heal his blindness!

A Devotional for October 21, 2025

O Lord! Have Mercy!

“And he cried out, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Luke 18: 38.

[Consider the town sinner and the great backslider.[1]] There is a more than ordinary breaking up of the corruptions of their nature. It seems as if all their lusts and vile passions of the flesh were become masters and might now do what they will with the soul. Yea, they take this man and toss and tumble him like a ball in a large place. This man is not master of himself, of his thoughts, nor of his passions—"His iniquities, like the wind, do carry him away” (Isaiah 64: 6). He thinks to go forward but this wind blows him backward. He labors against this wind but cannot find that he gets ground. He takes what advantage opportunity does minister to him but all he gets is to be beat out of heart, out of breath, out of courage. He stands still, and pants, and gapes as if for life. “I opened my mouth, and panted,” said David, “for I longed for thy commandments.” (Psalm 119: 131) He sets forward again but has nothing but labor and sorrow.

Nay, to help forward his calamity, Satan [and his] angels will not be wanting. Both to trouble his head with the fumes of their stinking breath nor to throw up his heels in their dirty places—"And as he was yet a-coming, the devil threw him down and tare him.” (Luke 9: 42) How many strange, hideous, and amazing blasphemies have those, some of those, that are coming to Christ, had injected, and fixed upon their spirits against him. Now help, Lord; now, Lord Jesus, what shall I do? Now, Son of David, have mercy upon me! I say, to say these words is hard work for such a one. But he can save to the uttermost this comer to God by him.

[1] See previous devotional reading.