Everlasting Mercy - Guaranteed

“His merciful kindness is great toward us.” (Psalm 117:2) I don’t know how many household appliances we have bought that come with a 1-5 year guarantee, that have failed in some way a few days or weeks after the guarantee runs out. Anymore, it seems like everything has built-in antiquity. But the promise of God’s great mercy is for everlasting. It is something that is guaranteed to endure forever (psalm 100:5)! Wow! Mercy is defined in the Hebrew as “loving kindness.” Since God is love, He always acts with loving kindness –this is mercy. Someone has said that “mercy is withholding the just punishment we deserve; and “grace” is God’s gift to us that we don’t deserve.” Phillip Keller said, “It is impossible to be kind without being merciful.” If we all had justice for all our sins we would all be in hell; but because God, through Jesus, had mercy on us and caused Jesus to receive our punishment on the cross and provided us with the grace gift of eternal life, if we will receive it, - what mercy, what love and what grace! Lamentations 3:22-23 tells us that “God’s mercies are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness!” Just think, Jesus knows how many mercies I will need today and He has my allotment ready, then the next morning He has a new allotment waiting. His merciful kindness is great toward us and never runs out. Mercy is a "grace gift" we just have to acknowledge it and be grateful for it. I ask for God’s mercy every day for some situation in my life for which I desperately need it. I acknowledge my unworthiness to receive God’s mercy but gratefully accept His gift of forgiveness and mercy. There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy Frederick W. Faber There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in His justice which is more than liberty. There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good; There is mercy with the Savior, there is healing in His blood. For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind, And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. If our love were but more simple, we should take Him at His Word, And our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of our Lord.