Your cry, O GOD SAVE ME, O GOD SAVE US, O GOD SAVE EVERYONE, O GOD SAVE EVERYTHING YOU CREATED, has a blessed sound in it, for it shows that your heart is moved to seek mercy, and prayer is the prelude of all mercies. Never did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by prayer, and your prayers are the shadows of mercy cast before its coming. God would have prayer to be the preface to mercy, that we may see the value of it and that our sense of need may be deepened before the blessing comes.
There is much that is commendable in the largeness of your supplication. Intercessory prayer has been practiced by all the best of God's saints, and it is the sweetest prayer God ever hears, for the prayer of Christ himself is of this character. It is exceedingly prevalent. It has stayed plagues and, instrumentally, has been the means of saving many souls. When you pour out your heart not only for yourself but for others, for all men and for the whole creation which groans under sin, you are blending your heart with the heart of Christ who ever liveth to make intercession.
And take encouragement, for God delights in mercy. Can it be that His mercy is clean gone forever. Has He in anger shut up His tender mercy. It cannot be. His very name is Love, and He waiteth to be gracious. Yet rightly, upon the terms of justice, there is no conceivable reason why He should have mercy upon us. Divine grace must make and invent a reason, and it has done so in salvation by substitution, salvation by sacrifice. As Noah entered into the ark and was saved through death and burial, so there is a time when we must distinctly enter into Christ and become one with Him. He gave His life a ransom for many, and by that ransom He wrought out a great redemption. God is sternly just, inflexibly severe in His dealings with sin, and therefore the redemption must be measured by the sternness of that justice and by the glorious deliverance which Christ has effected.
This is why salvation is through Jesus Christ alone. The mercy seat is the well of refreshment to which the sinner must come with a true heart. Every form of fellowship with Jesus, wrought in us by the Spirit, is a well of salvation. God loves the mercy seat better than you do. He dwelleth between the cherubim, and when the Spirit draws you there, you may be sure God is there too to hear. Do not base your evidence of salvation upon your feeling or your joy, which varies, but upon Christ himself. Come plainly to God and say, O Lord, You know what I need, save me for Christ's sake. Bring the hammer of the promise down upon the nail of prayer and plead as Jacob did, Thou hast said.
So continue to pray, and pray thus. Ask the Lord to save you, to save your household, to save all who will call upon the name of Jesus, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Pray that the creation itself, now subject to vanity, may be delivered in the day of His appearing. And as you pray for others, you will be fitted to be God's instrument in turning sinners from the error of their ways, for prayer is the most essential thing in that work.
May the Lord hear your cry from the mercy seat, give you faith to enter into Christ as into the ark, and seal to your soul mercy, pardon and righteousness in Him. May He teach you to praise Him not merely in words but in new actions which shall speak more loudly than words. Amen.