To fully appreciate grace you must first understand original sin. , we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy Nevertheless, it is not imputed to God’s children for their condemnation but is forgiven by his grace and mercy your sins and that, by your very nature, you are an object of God's wrath; BUT God, who is rich in mercy AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who is great in love and rich in mercy; ALIGN

15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. "God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden." But also realize the unsurpassed comfort this doctrine provides: That although you'll never fully understand AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy,

Romans 9:15-16 15  For God says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion whom I have compassion.”  16  It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God’s mercy It's completely dependent upon God's mercy. why today's verse, stating that salvation does not depend upon your desire or effort, but on God's mercy AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who will have mercy on whom He'll have mercy

13  Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy Holy Spirit, holds out great promise for you when you confess and renounce your sins: you will find mercy are blessed, which is of course the same word that Jesus, the new ʾā·ḏām uses to describe those who fully Solomon here calls you to: a life of prosperous blessedness, marked not by fleeting riches, but rather by full LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Confess and renounce your sins, so that you will find God's abundant mercy

The flood account demonstrates God's just wrath and faithful mercy. Genesis 6 - 9 (NIV) 11  Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12  God saw But isn’t God also merciful? A. God is certainly merciful, but he is also just. The earth had become corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence . AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who is perfectly just and merciful; A LIGN

Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 3   If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could morning. 7   Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full being, but the one thing the psalmist a sks the LORD for is that His ears be attentive to my cry for mercy Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 5  I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits and (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, with whom there is forgiveness, unfailing love and full

Micah 7:8–9 (NIV) CONTEXT: Today's passage comes at the end of a book full of judgment and lament. The Certainty of This Preservation It is not by our own merits or strength but by God’s undeserved mercy Micah famously proclaimed the LORD's requirements for His people: that they would act justly, love mercy As the Canons put it, by God’s undeserved mercy, you can be certain that you will neither forfeit faith LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that as you live in Micah's confidence, that you would act justly, love mercy

your works and for all that shines forth from them: your almighty power, wisdom, kindness, justice, mercy But even in handing down this terrible punishment that the people fully deserve, God still offers them He reveals Himself through His Word, His Son, who is also fully God, became incarnate and provided you do reminds you that you would not even be able to speak to your Holy Father except for His grace and mercy

I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly. 11  Do not withhold your mercy Once again, David cries out to the LORD for mercy, protection, and salvation. It means that one one hand, your salvation is already fully accomplished - you are completely saved. But on the other, we've not yet fully experienced it. Bad things keep happening.

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 20: The Justice and Mercy of God in Christ We believe that God— who is perfectly merciful and also very just— sent his Son to assume the known his justice toward his Son, who was charged with our sin, and he poured out his goodness and mercy that even 463 years ago when the Belgic Confession was written, this concept of God's simultaneous mercy Our human nature wants to understand God as being one way or the other: either merciful or just, but