The Lord's Unfailing Compassion Is Ours

 

The Lord's Unfailing Compassion Is Ours

Lamentations 3:22

It is of The LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.

Psalm 100:5 It Endures

Psalm 103:17 It is from Everlasting to Everlasting; It is for they who fear The Lord.

Isaiah 54:10 It will never leave us, nor will it be broken between The Lord and us.

Numbers 14:18 In His compassion The Lord forgives iniquity and transgression.

Deuteronomy 7:9 He keeps His covenant with us through thousands of generations.

Nehemiah 9:31 In His compassion The Lord does not kill us, nor does He forsake us.

Micah 7:19 In His compassion He vanquishes iniquity; all our sins He casts into the depths of the sea.

Matthew 14:14 With great compassion The Lord heals us.

Mark 8:2 With compassion The Lord feeds us.

Luke 7:13-16 With compassion The Lord will raise the dead and God will be glorified.

Luke 15:20-24 In His great unwavering compassion for His lost sons and daughters, He receives us when we return to Him; He embraces us and clothes us with honor and shods our feet with dignity; He gives us His seal and we are welcomed back into His house and His family.

    We confess our guilt and our shame to The Lord, acknowledging that though we are not worthy to receive anything from Him, yet we beg Him to give us the least place of honor in His house and to feed us as He feeds all His servants.

    We run to our heavenly Father and we plead for mercy and forgiveness, longing just to see Him and be in His house, even if we are not worthy to be in His presence.

    And God runs to embrace us! He covers us with kisses! He is overjoyed to see us and He wraps His loving arms around us, raising us up out of the filth we are covered in and clothing us with robes of honor. He puts His seal on us. We have been forgiven and now we are forever in His family. We are sons and daughters of God, our heavenly Father, and we are home.

    Because of His Unfailing Compassion upon all who fear Him: revere Him, love Him, praise Him, honor Him, worship Him, give Him all the glory, we are received forevermore into His kingdom.

    Are we receiving each other in such a way? Are we willing to forgive those around us with such grace and mercy as this? If not, then we, too, need to be running back to The Father and ask His forgiveness and to restore us to where we need to be in His kingdom.

The LORD is Merciful - Psalm 103

 

PSALM 103:8

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy.

James 5:11

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Compassion: according to the Bible, means full of mercy. It is an accusative term applied to God's love, which He extends to us. Not accusatory, but accusative, which is, according to the dictionary: relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives that expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion. And what is the object of God's action or goal of motion: GOD IS LOVE (1 John 4:15-17). In His great love, He sent us His only begotten Son by wrapping His WORD in flesh and having It go through life like any other person....almost. For Christ is sinless, the only Person who never sinned against GOD. How could He? He was, and is GOD. An amazing feat which only GOD could accomplish!

    Here, both David and James write that God is reminding us that He shows us mercy, great mercy, and grace. The gods in the areas in which David and James lived were not. The gods being worshiped in those days are still being worshiped today. Yet, GOD is still extending His mercy towards us. 

    Our God is slow to anger (longsuffering, which is more than just being patient).  It's been nearly 2,000 years, since Christ ascended into heaven to be with His Father. That's more than patient; that length of time is, indeed, longsuffering. He has put up with people ignoring Him, mocking Him, hating Him, betraying Him, loving, then leaving Him. And, yet, GOD extends His mercy out into all the world. 

    Though every heart will not receive His Truth by their own choice, God being love, flows out into all the world like a winding stream, touching every person even if they refuse to be loved by GOD. Please don't be that person. GOD loves you and wants only the best for you. How do we know that? John 3:16,17 "For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For GOD sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

    Again, in 1 John 4:15-17 - If anyone confesses that Jesus is The Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. GOD IS LOVE; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him. 

    The 'we' James is referring to is the believers, the ones who have confessed that Jesus Christ is The Son of God. Paul wrote in Romans 10:9, 10 "That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved." 

    This is the mercy which GOD extends to us all. This great and wonderful mercy is mine. Is it yours, too? 

THE CROSS - Anne Wilson & Chris Tomlin 

Blessed Are The Merciful

 

    Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

    HOW DO WE SHOW MERCY?

Share The Living Water of Life with Them

(that they may drink and be satisfied)

    Proverbs 11:25

A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

Forgive The People Who Have Done Us Wrong

(regardless of how many times they do so)

    Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Honor Each Other With Genuine Affection

(not because you have to but because you want to)

Romans 12:10

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

    These are just a few verses on showing Mercy to others. Which ones can you think of?