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God is…(4)
God is…(4)
Greg King
In coming to know God we seek to know His character and His heart. God is love. God is gracious. God is merciful.
The last thing that man should want to be without is mercy. One may survive as long as he has mercy to give and mercy to receive. Imagine the hopeless state of someone that could neither show mercy or be shown mercy. One who can dispense no mercy is cold and cruel. You wouldn’t want such a person as a neighbor or a friend. When such men rule, ruthless injustice and mass murder prevail. The merciless are unthankful, selfish, and inconsiderate. Their passions are all that matter. Fickle man may show mercy when it would be best not to do so. He may withhold it when it would be better to demonstrate it. To receive no mercy from man would certainly be bad (Matt. 10:28). Ultimately, therefore, we desire mercy from “the God of all mercies” (2Cor. 1:3).
God has decided to dispense His divine mercy upon all men through Jesus Christ. In Romans 5:21 we are told, “so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Also in Psalm 86:5 the Lord is “plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Him”. His mercy is shown as that of a loving father toward his children (Psa. 103 :13). We must serve Him as an obedient child with “reverence and godly fear” (Heb. 12:28). If not, we have no promise of His mercy. Not only is the mercy of the Lord on them that fear Him but also to those that remember His commandments and do them. Psa. 103:17-18 says, “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.”
Sadly those that depart from the word God shall receive neither grace nor mercy. Come to know God and receive His mercy!
