TENDER
MERCY
BREAD
8 He has
showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
(NIV)
31 For
the Lord your God is a merciful
God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your
forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath. Deuteronomy 4:31 (NIV)
21 Yet
this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness. 24 I say
to myself, “The Lord is my
portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:21-24 (NIV)
26 I will
bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in
season; there will be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34:26 (NIV)
6 Remember,
O Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old. Psalms 25:6 (NIV)
9 The
Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against
him. Daniel 9:9 (NIV)
12 Speak
and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy
will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over
judgment! James 2:12-13 (NIV)
The
Lord is full of compassion and mercy. James
5:11 (NIV)
36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:36 (NIV)
BUTTER
“To added
affliction He addeth His mercy, to multiplied trials, His multiplied
peace.” Annie Johnson Flint
“It is impossible
to get from preoccupation with behavior to the gospel. The gospel is not a
message about doing things. It is a message about being a new creature. It speaks to people as broken, fallen sinners
who are in need of a new heart. God has given His Son to make us new creatures.
God does open-heart surgery, not a face-lift. He produces change from inside
out. He rejects the man who fasts twice a week and accepts the sinner who cries
for mercy.” Tedd
Tripp
“The pearl of justice is
found in the heart of mercy.” Catherine
of Siena
“The mercy of God is that attribute which
we, the fallen, sinful race of Adam, stand in greatest need of, and God has
been pleased, according to our needs, more gloriously to manifest this
attribute than any other. The wonders of divine grace are the greatest of all
wonders. The wonders of divine power and wisdom in the making of this great
world are marvelous; many wonderful things have happened since the creation of
the world, but none like the wonders of grace. "Grace, grace!" is the
sound that the gospel rings with, "Grace, grace!" will be that shout
which will ring in heaven forever; and perhaps what the angels sung at the
birth of Christ, of God's good will towards men, is the highest theme that ever
they entered upon.” Jonathan
Edwards
“The foundational
principle of grace is that God’s kingdom priorities are completely inverted
from those of the world. God’s plan is to magnify His saving mercy and grace
not through human strength but rather through its weakness…The gospel of grace
would remind us that we can’t be used until we operate not out of our own
strength but in weakness, as we depend on Christ’s Spirit to show the reality
of the cross.” Paul
Kooistra
“God's mercy is vast and beyond our comprehension. He will never
reject anyone who turns to Him for mercy. Nor will He force Himself on anyone
who chooses to live without Him.”
Michael Youssef
“There
is a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea.” Frederick William Faber
“Nothing graces
the Christian soul as much as mercy.” Ambrose
“Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.” John
Chrysostom
“God’s willingness to show mercy appears
by His joyfulness when sinners take hold on His mercy. God’s goodness is that He rejoices at the
salvation of sinners and is glad when His mercy is accepted. God rejoices when a poor sinner comes in and
takes hold of His mercy. What an
encouragement to believe in God! He is a
God of pardons. Mercy pleases Him. Nothing prejudices us but unbelief. Unbelief stops the current of God’s mercy
from running, shut God’s bowels, closes the cavity of Christ’s wounds, so no
healing virtue will come out. As far as
the heavens are above the earth, so far is God’s mercy above our sins. What will tempt us to believe, if not the
mercy of God?” Thomas Watson
“Among
the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more
brilliance than justice.” Miguel de Cervantes
“I
love Him because He first loved me. His
goodness and mercy and compassion to me are new every day. And my assurance is lodged in these aspects
of His character. My trust is in His
love for me as His own. My serenity has
as its basis an implicit, unshakable reliance on His ability to do the right
thing, the best thing in any given situation.
This to me is the supreme portrait of my Shepherd. Continually there flows out to me His
goodness and His mercy, which even though I do not deserve them, come
unremittingly from their source of supply – His own great heart of love.” Phillip Keller
HEART
SAVOR
- · God desires for me to love mercy as He loves mercy.
- · The Lord my God is merciful and He will never abandon me nor treat me as my sins deserve – praise Him! His heart is brimming with compassion and mercy.
- · Indeed, God’s mercy is beyond my comprehension.
