Our Merciful God
“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.” Exodus 34:6
The mercy of God is one of the most precious realities in the world, and it is one of the most revealing attributes of God in the Bible.
To really know God is to understand that he is full of mercy.
If you want to look into his heart, it is not the display of his anger and power that you should look at, rather you should set your eyes on his mercy, without minimizing the fullness of his might!
From the Bible, we see that when God shows his mercy, he does so deliberately and it is never by accident. His mercy reveals his sovereignty and unequalled strength.
We get our deepest glimpse of who he is not just in his almightiness but his goodness. Not simply in his greatness but in his gentleness.
God’s mercy not only shows us who he is but also tells us something essential about ourselves. That we have been shown mercy means not only that we didn’t deserve his favour, but that we deserved his righteous judgement.
Our cry for mercy admits our inadequacy and our lack of merit. When by right, we should be under his impending wrath, as all mankind (Ephesians 2:3) but for the “the tender mercy of our God” (Luke 1:78).
Let’s take some time to appreciate God for who He is – The Merciful God who has not for once stopped showing us His mercies.
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his MERCY he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” Titus 3:5