God's Mercy

What is God's mercy?  God's Mercy is withholds what we do deserve.
God's Mercy in the New Testament, eleeo and eleos are used 59 times. Mercy is not simply the withholding of punishment, but it is the act of giving help or having compassion on someone who is afflicted. We were all afflicted with the sin gene. Leaving man and with  no hope of escaping his sin nature .
Our Salvation is an act of the mercy of God, completely unwarranted by our past actions. "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"

Lamentations 3:

 ²²It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
 ²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


 It is God's mercy to which we sinners primarily appeal. We see this demonstrated in the words of the penitent David in Psalm 51:1, to the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had committed adultery with  Bathsheba  and ordered the assignation of her husband.  David once he was made aware of his sin cried out to the Lord in Psalm 51 verse 1.                                                  

Psalm 51

 ¹ Have mercy upon me, O God,
         According to Your lovingkindness;
         According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
         Blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 59:16 

 ¹⁶But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Psalm 136

 ¹O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

The author of Psalms 136 want to ensure that the reader  knows that God's mercy is never ending, based off the fact that it is mention in the Psalm 26 times. Normally it believed that if something is mentioned twice that is God's way of letting his people know that he is going to do just what he said he would do. Example in Genesis with Joseph we see two appearing as sign of what God is going to do. But when something is mentioned 26 times I think we can say for certain, that God is making a clear indication of who he is, what he is about.

Psalm 145:

 ⁸The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
 ⁹The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

 Titus 3:5 we see that "he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy...."Mercy was such an important thing to the early Christians that they often included it in their greetings. Today it seems we have forgotten our roots, let us return back to that stage that we saw with Paul and many of the original followers of Christ.  Because God is a merciful God, he expects his children to be merciful. Mercy is so important that God instructs us to bind it around our necks and write it upon the tablet of our hearts (Prov. 3:3). In Matthew 23:23, we learn that mercy is one of the weightier matters of the law, and that it takes precedence over many other things. The prophet Hosea informs us that God desires mercy, even more than he desires sacrifice (Hos. 6:6). In what seems to be a watershed statement in the Hebrew scriptures, the prophet says to us in Micah 6:8: "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."

     When Jesus delivered his Sermon on the Mount, he summarized the biblical teaching in these simple words,"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (Matt. 5:7). In another place, the Lord gives us a simple command to be merciful: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36).

     Let us look at some aspects of mercy and try to bring this command down to where we live our daily lives.

Oh Heavenly Father have mercy on America, have mercy on this government and most of all have mercy on the body of Christ for we have failed you in not bowing down daily before you. We have failed you because we no longer have clean heart, for we have become apart of the world.  Have mercy on us oh Father of Jacob, thank you for your mercy is new each day.  I thank you that without your mercy I don't know where I would be, let each of us examine ourself and seek to live an improved life for God and to seek to please the desires of the flesh or feed the fears of man.