God’s Mercy

For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. (Isaiah 54:7 NLT)

O Jesus, You’re so patient and loving with us all. You have dealt with us in great love. We are as a brand snatched from the burning and lifted up from the dust and nothing. We thank You for Your love, Lord, how much You loved us. You didn’t fail us. You didn’t give up on us, even though we looked like a hopeless case.

“For My mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, and so will I have mercy upon thee.” “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” “For though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool!”

“Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe! Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow!” God’s mercy seems to be unlimited. His love is boundless. Praise God!—DBB [1]

Does Jesus care when my heart is pained Too deeply for mirth or song, As the burdens press, and the cares distress, And the way grows weary and long? As the daylight fades into deep night shades, Does He care enough to be near? Oh, yes, He cares, I know He cares, His heart is touched with my grief; When the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know my Savior cares.—Did Jesus Cares? by Frank E. Graeff

[1] “Open Your Heart to Mercy and Forgiveness.” Anchor, August 11, 2015