Mercy is when you deserve to drown for running from God, but He sends a great fish to keep you alive. Look at Jonah.
Mercy is when you deserve execution for murder, but God sends you a burning bush and a calling. Look at Moses.
Mercy is when you deserve to be buried under falling walls, but God sends you a scarlet cord and spares your house. Look at Rahab.
Mercy is when you deserve the sword for adultery and bloodshed, but God sends you a prophet with conviction instead of a coffin. Look at David.
Mercy is when you deserve to be erased for witchcraft and innocent blood, but God sends you chains that humble you and restoration when you repent. Look at Manasseh.
Mercy is when you deserve immediate judgment for stealing a man’s inheritance and shedding innocent blood, but God delays disaster because you humbled yourself. Look at Ahab.
Mercy is when you deserve fire from Heaven for violence and wickedness, but God withholds destruction when you cry out in repentance. Look at Nineveh.
Mercy is when you deserve to be disqualified for denying the Savior, but Jesus builds a fire and restores you anyway. Look at Peter.
Mercy is when you deserve blindness and destruction for persecuting the church, but Jesus meets you in light and turns you into a preacher. Look at Paul.
Mercy is when you deserve to die forgotten for your crimes, but Jesus promises you paradise before the sun sets. Look at the thief on the cross.
Mercy is when you are a liar and deceiver, but God wrestles with you through the night and gives you a new name instead of cutting you off. Look at Jacob.
Mercy is when you deserve to lose your inheritance for trading it for a meal, but God still lets you become a nation. Look at Esau.
Mercy is when you are barren and broken, but God opens your womb and lets you raise a prophet. Look at Hannah.
Mercy is when you are proud on your throne, but God humbles you in a field and then restores your kingdom when you lift your eyes to Heaven. Look at Nebuchadnezzar.
Mercy is when you are an outcast leper, but Jesus touches you and makes you clean. Look at the leper in The Gospel.
Mercy is when you deserve condemnation in the middle of your shame, but Jesus says, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” Look at the woman in John 8.
Mercy is when you are bound, cutting yourself among the tombs, but Jesus crosses the sea to set you free. Look at the demoniac in the Gadarenes.
Mercy is when you are bleeding, but Jesus stops in the crowd and calls you daughter. Look at the woman with a blood issue.
Mercy is when you deserve to be swallowed up for complaining again and again, but God keeps sending manna anyway. Look at Israel in the wilderness.
Mercy is when you deserve hell for your sin, but God sends His Son to take the cross in your place.
That’s mercy.