MADE TO WORSHIP

MERCY

 

Mercy is compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.  God's shows mercy when he forgives sinners, because they really deserve punishment.  Jesus said that those who show mercy will receive mercy from God.  Scripture tells us that in light of and in response to God's mercy we are called to worship God with our entire lives.  It is God's mercy that leads to the hope of our salvation through Jesus atoning sacrafice.  God is rich in mercy because he loves us.  

 

Romans 12:1

"I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."

 

1 Peter 1:3

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead"

 

Titus 3:4-7

"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,  whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,  so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

 

Ephesians 2:4-6

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus."

 

 

"Mercy Mercy"

Hillsong United
 

Mercy mercy
Bring me to my knees
As the morning
Calls to light the dark in me

Heaven's story
Breathing life into my bones
Spirit lift me
From this wasteland lead me home

Now I
Find my life in Yours
My eyes
On Your name

Arrest my heart
From its reckless path
Release the chains in me
Awake my soul
To the hope You hold
Your grace is all I need

Humble glory
Chose to carry all my shame
Rendered worthy
In the shadow of Your Name

Gracious fury
Written in my Savior's scars
Mercy mercy
Now engraved upon my heart

Now I
Find my life in Yours
My eyes
On Your name

Arrest my heart
From its reckless path
Release the chains in me
Awake my soul
To the hope You hold
Your grace is all I need

Mercy mercy
Bring me to my knees
As the morning
Calls to light the dark in me