PROMISE #191 - JULY 10
Promise #191:
I forgive sins and I love to show mercy.
Micah 7:18 (WEB)
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
There is no one like our God and Father. He is the kindest, most loving, most forgiving Father ever. In today's promise, the KJV Bible says that He delighteth in mercy. This means that God loves to show mercy and He enjoys being merciful to us on every occasion.
Some images of God that we see in our society today are that of an angry old man in the sky, pointing his bony finger toward humanity in judgment. We also see Jesus in this distorted image as our high priest crying out to His Father not to pour out His wrath on the human race.
This image of God couldn't be any farther from the truth. It was God's idea to send His own Son to the earth because of His great love (John 3:16). It was God's idea to adopt us into His family before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-6) because our God and Father loves forgiving our sins and showing us mercy on every occasion.
May every wrong image of God be consumed in the fire of His love today. May His mercy go deep into our hearts so that we might become merciful even as our Heavenly Father is merciful (Luke 6:36).
I forgive sins and I love to show mercy.
Micah 7:18 (WEB)
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
There is no one like our God and Father. He is the kindest, most loving, most forgiving Father ever. In today's promise, the KJV Bible says that He delighteth in mercy. This means that God loves to show mercy and He enjoys being merciful to us on every occasion.
Some images of God that we see in our society today are that of an angry old man in the sky, pointing his bony finger toward humanity in judgment. We also see Jesus in this distorted image as our high priest crying out to His Father not to pour out His wrath on the human race.
This image of God couldn't be any farther from the truth. It was God's idea to send His own Son to the earth because of His great love (John 3:16). It was God's idea to adopt us into His family before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-6) because our God and Father loves forgiving our sins and showing us mercy on every occasion.
May every wrong image of God be consumed in the fire of His love today. May His mercy go deep into our hearts so that we might become merciful even as our Heavenly Father is merciful (Luke 6:36).