God of Mercy

“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” – Hebrews 8:12

God is a God of mercy. The word mercy is used in many different ways. It implies benevolence, forgiveness, and kindness. It may be compassionate behavior. It may be extending help to those who have misfortune.

God’s mercy isn’t just for those who deserve it. Indeed, the Christian understanding of mercy is God’s blessings on those who don’t deserve it.

Even when we are unrighteousness, when our actions, behaviors, or thoughts are disgusting and without reason, God shows mercy.

Can we understand such mercy, can we make sense of it? No. Graham Greene, a great writer once said “You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

Not only does God show mercy, but He refuses to call the sins and failures to His remembrance ever again. They are completely forgiven. The old is gone.

Completely forgiven.
Unrighteousness gone.
Completely clean.
Fresh.
Redeemed.
Forgiven.
Restored.

The same as if it never happened. You didn’t deserve it. But it’s God’s nature and His mercy to freely give it.

Rejoice in God’s mercy.

“For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”