yea for mercy!!

i used to have a hard time understanding the difference between grace and mercy. i just knew that i was thankful for both! i was thankful for a God who is so full of grace & mercy. but one day the not knowing got to me. so in trying to figure out what those terms meant i read a lot of definitions. This is what i finally understood.
Grace - it's when we receive something that we didn't earn or deserve. God's grace --salvation, i don't deserve His gift of forgiveness and acceptance, but He gives it anyway. i love grace!!

BUT mercy - mercy is something else. mercy is when we do not get what we deserve. For example, if you're speedin' in a school zone & the orting police stops you, and your most current copy of your insurance is at home beside the bed, and the address on your driver's license isn't correct, and you just went through a sorta yellowish light, and you know that you DESERVE a big ole ticket, but instead you get a kind word about the importance of driving slow, and having up-to-date information in the car....WHEW...that's mercy...(thanks mr. policeman for having mercy on me and my bank account! :-]).


I love HIS grace. I love HIS mercy. I love HIS presence in our everyday stuff!

:-)