God Is Rich In Mercy

Ephesians 2:4 NKJV “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,”

The devil promotes the lie that God is mad at people and anxious to condemn them, but the Bible says that God is rich in mercy, to us. Remembering what happened in Nineveh’s case will give you a clearer picture of God’s abundant mercy.  God told Jonah that Nineveh would be destroyed. But when the people of Nineveh repented before God, they received mercy. God changed His judgment, and their lives were spared (Jonah 1:2; Jonah 3:3-10). Whenever people repent and turn toward God, no matter how evil they have been, God shows mercy. God is still the same. He delights in mercy (Mica 7:18). Mercy means not getting what we deserve. It is defined as leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice. Several verses of the Bible proclaim that God’s mercy endures forever. We may look at people and think they do not deserve another chance. They may have blown it again and again and they may seem hopeless to us. But God looks at people differently. He looks at them through eyes of Love and sees their potential and as a result shows mercy. Yes, God is against sin. But it is because He loves us, and knows how harmful sin is. God is more merciful than we have realized. God has plenty of mercy. This is what we should learn from this word of encouragement: The mercy God has shown to us, let us show same mercy to others!