Posts Tagged ‘ Mercy ’
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6, ESV
God’s mercy is clear when children grow up and follow what good they learned from their parents.
God’s grace is clear when those children grow up and follow Christ.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27, ESV
In His mercy, God overlooks our man-made attempts to please Him. In His grace, He showed is what is right.
We should seek His righteousness and show mercy and grace to those who most need it.
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ
Philippians 1:9-10, ESV
God grants us His mercy to seek Him, and His grace that we may find Him and love Him.
Seek God. Grow in His love and wisdom, knowing Him more and what He desires for our lives in Christ.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:33, ESV
God shows mercy to us by providing much of our needs when we are going astray, and He shows grace in giving more than we are aware we have needed, especially as we seek Him and find Hos forgiveness and love.
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:18, ESV
God has shown us mercy in not destroying us outright, and grace by reconciling us with Himself through the cross. Let us now lead others to that mercy and grace.
“And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
Malachi 4:6, ESV
It can seem the world is getting worse all the time.
Yet, God has called us to show His mercy by praying that He will draw fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, whole families together and to Him.
Pray God’s mercy and grace on our world and our hearts and minds.
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36, ESV
In our sin, we are slapping God in the face. He has every right to destroy us.
But He relents in His love us. Likewise, we should show mercy to those who mistreat, abuse, and are mean to us.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8, ESV
Too many start with their own will, and this is not good.
We are to seek the Lord’s justice, Love in His kindness, and know these by honestly seeking His will and living by it.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
John 1:12, ESV
Though we have pushed God away, when we believe in Jesus, our compassionate God loves us, redeems us, and welcomes us into the family of God, in Jesus’ name.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1, ESV
The world hates us, and we are harder on ourselves than anyone else knowing how often we fall short.
But our loving God is full of grace and mercy, moving our shame to Christ on the cross, freeing us and clothing us in righteousness.
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