The plea for mercy is that which rises from the very dust, and it is to Mercy's throne that you direct your cry. The Lord has a singular season for the interposition of His mercy, sometimes in the desert, by the well, when the soul is sitting in despair. It may be that this is the very time when God's mighty mercy is ordained to meet with you in this dark tangle of fears. Your husband's case, the footage that accuses, the threat of testimony, these are the sewers I have spoken of, an unhealthy process for the soul to traverse. Yet the Lord's ways are not our ways. He can cause the sword of justice to sleep in its scabbard, held there by the hand of mercy crying, "Be still!" It is not because the man deserves it, but because mercy looks to find a reason, a loophole, I called it, why she may spare the sinner. The only terms upon which God deals with guilty men are terms of mercy. Cry it out, then, with all your heart: "Have mercy upon me, O God," for this is a blessed token that the angel of mercy is close at hand.
What you now desire is a gracious dismissal, that the case be somehow set aside. The very beauty of your character in this will lie in the quietude of your future life. Let that be your posture: not striving or seeking publicity, but subside into your family, trusting the Lord to work. That footage, that testimony, God in His mercy often goes before us, preventing our fears. How often, when we have begun to pray for a mercy, we have had the mercy while we have yet been calling! The Gospel is a going before of us. He can make the judge have mercy, stay the prosecutors, and render useless the evidence that seems so damning. The Lord is slow to anger because He is infinitely good; He has no pleasure in the crushing of the penitent. Yet remember, a sound hope in God's mercy feels its need of that mercy. You must be clean divorced from every confidence except in mercy itself.
The benefits you need restored, the doctor's form to be signed, these too are the errands of His tender mercy. For every individual case, God seems to have prepared some separate good thing. The mercy that can dismiss a court case is the same mercy that can hasten a doctor's pen and smooth a journey. Your trip, the fear of long lines and delays, "The God of my mercy shall prevent me" was the old translation. He goes before. He can open the app, still the queue, and grant an early check-in as surely as He parted the Red Sea. These are small things to the One whose tender mercies are over all His works. They are the common footprints of mercy in the daily experience of those who have proved its saving efficacy.
But I must press upon you this one thing: all God's mercy to a sinner is Gratis. He never sells, He always gives. And the first thing His mercy does is to turn your face in a new direction, making you a new creation. Do not rest only in the hope that your husband's external trouble will pass. Let this affliction, this stern discipline, bring you both low before the Messenger of the Covenant, who can make you feel the way of salvation as well as know it. Believe in the mercy of God in Christ Jesus! On the ground of the sacrifice, He can forgive the sin and restore the years the locust has eaten. He can make you as though He had never cast you aside. That is your true need and your only unshakable hope. Cry for that mercy, receive it, and then go in peace.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
