THE ONLY GOD IS MERCIFUL


Isaiah 45:5-12
5 I am God, the only God there is. Besides me there are no real gods. I'm the one who armed you for this work, though you don't even know me, 
6 So that everyone, from east to west, will know that I have no god-rivals. I am God, the only God there is. 
7 I form light and create darkness, I make harmonies and create discords. I, God, do all these things. 
8 "Open up, heavens, and rain. Clouds, pour out buckets of my goodness! Loosen up, earth, and bloom salvation; sprout right living. I, God, generate all this. 
9 But doom to you who fight your Maker - you're a pot at odds with the potter! Does clay talk back to the potter: 'What are you doing? What clumsy fingers!' 
10Would a sperm say to a father, 'Who gave you permission to use me to make a baby?' Or a fetus to a mother, 'Why have you cooped me up in this belly?'" 
11 Thus God, The Holy of Israel, Israel's Maker, says: "Do you question who or what I'm making? Are you telling me what I can or cannot do? 

12 I made earth, and I created man and woman to live on it. I handcrafted the skies and direct all the constellations in their turnings.

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“But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.” Psalm 86:15.

“Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.” Proverbs 3:3-4.

“Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” Luke 6:36.
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