Welcome back again!

First, I have to apologize for the much delay in delivering Part 3 of this blogpost series. Thank you for your pardon  🙂

We ended the Second Part discussing one of the ethical and inherent attributes of God as we have considered in this blogpost series…: “Know that the Lord Your God is Faithful.

Our reference scripture has been;

“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.” Deuteronomy 7: 9  NKJV.

Today, we look at another inherent attribute of Jehovah:

“Know that The Lord Your God (Jehovah) is Merciful”. 

There are so many scriptures in the Bible that speak of God as merciful. Let’s look at a few to help us understand the meaning and relevance of God being merciful.

“The Lord is merciful and gracious. Slow to anger and abounding in mercy“. Psalm 103:8

“for the Lord your God is a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them” Deuteronomy 4:31

“For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations.” Psalms 100:5

“And the Lord passed him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abounding in goodness and truth“. Exodus 34:6

“….You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness, One who relents from doing harm“.  Jonah 4:2b

“It is of The Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassion fail not. They are new every morning: great is the faithfulness“. Lamentations 3:22-23.

From the above we see the following;

The Lord our God is merciful as an offshoot of His Goodness. Jehovah is GOOD and has no evil in Him. He is inherently good with no ability of doing evil or harm. Being merciful is a natural and expected offshoot of being good.

I wouldn’t want to boast of myself as being good, but because I have the nature of God, having being bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and because the Spirit of the Lord is actively at work in me, I believe that my heart, nature, thoughts and actions are daily being transformed to display God’s goodness. More often now, people meet me and walk away with this impression; ….’Ah! Grace, you’re such a nice person’. In fact, my boss thinks I am too good to people and he seems to be saying that a lot these days. He says I am too quick to make excuses for the people who work with us.  That sounds like good news if you ask me,  especially because I am also often described as firm.  God is definitely at work in me. Halleluyah.

You cannot be good and not be merciful (selah).

Mercy speaks pardon. Mercy means forgiveness for wrongs. Mercy means relenting from doing harm even when it’s been earned. Mercy means doing good to someone who should ordinarily get nothing like good. Mercy compels us to love.

God is good and so being merciful is His inherent nature. Ephesians 2:4 tells us that;

“God, who is RICH in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us“.

Jesus Christ has eternally secured God’s mercy for us by his birth, death and resurrection. We are beneficiaries of the mercy of God because of His LOVE shown to us through Christ Jesus.

The mercy of God is EVERLASTING and it is NEW every morning. His mercy never runs dry. No!!!

So the next time you find yourself despondent from sin and wrongdoing, remember that God is Merciful and He is waiting with arms wide open to receive you the moment you forsake your wrongdoing and turn back to Him.

Jehovah is GOOD and merciful. His mercy is everlasting and brand new every morning.

Praise God.