“He Delighteth In Mercy”
Micah 7:18
I know that God’s tender mercy is over all his creatures. In merciful benevolence he sends the sunshine and the rain both upon the righteous and the wicked. I will leave it to others to argue about what to call that and what the purpose of God in such mercy is.
However, Micah
Micah tells us
that God delights in mercy. His hope
for himself and for
We
do not need to search very far to find abundant proof that God delights in
mercy. His mercy is seen everywhere. I know that God delights in mercy because
the very fact that fallen man lives upon God’s earth proves it
Often, though
his anger has been hot against men, he spared them in his great mercy (Psa.
78:38-39). The sparing of Hezekiah was an act of God’s mercy. The fact that
The fact that you and I who are born of God are alive today (spiritually alive in Christ), accepted in the Beloved, sons of God, chosen, redeemed, and saved is abundant proof that God delights in mercy. In abundant, long-suffering mercy, the Lord God preserved us in life and saved us by his grace (Eph. 2:4-5).
God chose the
vile refuse of this world as the objects of his grace, because “he delighteth in mercy” (1 Cor.
Though we are now saved by his grace, our conduct proves that God delights in mercy. We have been ungrateful, unbelieving, and unfaithful. But his mercy fails not! (Lam. 3:23).
The greatest
possible proof that our God delights in mercy is the sacrifice of his own Son
in our stead. If you have any doubt that the God of heaven delights in mercy,
go to
“Mercy there was great, and grace was free! Pardon there was multiplied to me,
There my burdened soul finds liberty!”
Don Fortner