How to Succeed at Being Yourself: Finding the Confidence to Fulfill Your Destiny by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religious Aspects, Christian Life, REL012000, Christianity, Religion, Spiritual Life, Self-Help, Personal Growth, General, Spiritual Growth, Self-Actualization (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780446532044
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 1999-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

MERCY! MERCY! MERCY!__________________

It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22,23

I frequently say, “It’s a good thing God’s mercy is new every morning, because I have used up all of yesterday’s supply!”

Mercy is another word that is in close relationship and even interchangeable to a degree with grace and favor. In Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language he defines mercy as:

“That benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves; the disposition that tempers justice, and induces an injured person to forgive trespasses and injuries, and to forbear punishment, or inflict less than law or justice will warrant. In this sense, there is perhaps no word in our language precisely synonymous with mercy. That which comes nearest to it is grace. It implies benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency, but exercised only towards offenders. Mercy is a distinguishing attribute of the Supreme Being.”2

I don’t know about you, but I am extremely happy about God’s mercy. I cannot possibly imagine where I would be today if it were not for it. I know for sure I would not be anywhere pleasant.

We all deserve punishment, but instead God gives us mercy. What an awesome God we serve! The psalms are filled with references to His mercy. Psalm 107:1 is an example: O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!

David was a man who loved God very much, yet he made serious mistakes. His passions gained the mastery over him and caused him to commit adultery and have a man murdered. I believe David talked so much about the mercy of God because he had experienced it firsthand in his life and ministry.

God’s mercy forgives and restores, and only a person like David who has been honest in his evaluation of himself can truly say, O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!

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