![]() See the difference? In his mercy God withholds WHAT WE DO DESERVE in his grace God heaps upon us infinite blessings WE DO NOT DESERVE. The Greek for “grace”, “charis” means: kindness, favor, “a gift or blessing brought to man by Jesus Christ”, or “kindness which bestows upon one what he has not deserved” (Strongs) ![]() And this is not your own doing it is the gift of God… ( Ephesians 2:8) In his grace he not only withheld his wrath, but he positively saved us:įor by grace you have been saved through faith. The Beauty of God’s Graceīut not only is God infinitely merciful, he is infinitely gracious. The difference between grace and mercy is that mercy is not getting what we deserve. It still would have been infinite mercy to us, to NOT give us what we DID DESERVE. Even if we were to never go to heaven or know him. Even if we were to die then cease to exist. If God simply spared us from hell that would have been infinite mercy.Įven if he did nothing else for us. If this were all he had done, it would have been incredible. But our God is compassionate and merciful. Instead, in his mercy, he poured his wrath out on his beloved Son. So in his mercy, he didn’t give us what we deserved, eternal punishment, his infinite wrath. God doesn’t take any pleasure in punishing people, even those who reject him and hate him outright. ![]() ![]() ( Romans 5:8)įor reasons known only to God, though we had spit in his face, broken his laws, rejected him and disobeyed him, he had compassion on us. …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. But in his mercy, God poured out on Jesus the wrath we deserved on the cross, so we could escape his wrath.įor while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. This is mercy: We have all sinned against a holy God. The Hebrew for “merciful” means “compassionate” or “full of compassion.” It means “to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior to favor, bestow”īut you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. In other words, God’s mercy is NOT giving sinners what they DO DESERVE.Īnd God’s grace is POSITIVELY GIVING sinners what they DO NOT DESERVE. The simplest way to understand the difference between grace and mercy is that they are flip sides of the coin of his love.
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