God's mercy is amazing. To what do we liken it? With gentle, loving touch, he healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of His mercy as in the matter of
it. It is great mercy. There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like himself-it is infinite.
You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins of great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
It is undeserved mercy, as indeed all true mercy must be, for deserved mercy is only a misnomer for justice. There was no right on the sinner's part to the kind
consideration of the Most High; had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he would have richly merited the doom, and if delivered from wrath,
sovereign love alone has found a cause, for there was none in the sinner himself. It is rich mercy.
Some things are great, but have little efficacy in them, but this mercy is a golden ointment to your bleeding wounds; a heavenly bandage to your broken bones; a royal chariot for your
weary feet; a bosom of love for your trembling heart. It is manifold mercy.
As Bunyan says, "All the flowers in
God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you have but one mercy, but you shall find it
to be a whole cluster of mercies. It is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from being exhausted; it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever.
It is unfailing mercy. It will never leave thee. If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with thee in temptation to keep thee from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent thee from sinking; with thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast.
We have done nothing to deserve it, let this be our encouragement to press on, to run to the Father, rather than running away from Him during our down times.
God bless.
By Richard Onanuga
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