God's Mercy

God is “the Father of mercies” (2 Corinthians 1:3).  Mercy looks at the miseries of others with a sincere desire to help them.  Mercy doesn’t look at what we deserve, but at what we need.  God’s mercy goes beyond this; He is not only sympathetic with our sorrows, but He acts in His almighty power to give us relief.  It is a great blessing that God deals with repentant sinners in mercy rather than in judgment.  We do not deserve His favor and can do nothing to earn it.  Let me quote Thomas Manton: “The sense or participation of God’s saving mercies is to believers the life of their lives, the heaven they have upon earth, the joy and comfort of their souls; and the lack of this is a kind of death to them.”  Being confident of the Lord’s mercy is the beginning and pledge of our salvation, and the necessary foundation of a genuine relationship with Him.  Because He is merciful, we are assured of His love, and that sweetens everything in the life of the Christian.  Let us make it one of our highest goals every day to cherish and preserve by faith the sense of God’s merciful love to us.