Have You Ever Wondered Why God Showed You Mercy?

by Chuck Adair on April 25, 2024

Have You Ever Wondered Why God Showed You Mercy?

Read Genesis 7:1
Today’s Truth

Noah’s family was safe on an ark he had obediently built while the world and everything he had known disappeared. Noah probably could not understand why God chose to rescue his family. How overwhelming and humbling to experience God’s mercy in that way.

God didn’t have to save Noah and his family; He chose to. God made the world in one week. He could have started over, but in His mercy, God saved Noah. God’s mercy has rescuing power for people in trouble—people like us.

Discussion Questions
  1. Do you have a hard time accepting God’s mercy? Why or why not
  2. Consider where you would be without God’s grace and mercy. Take some time today to thank Him for it.
Application

Mercy is different than grace. Grace is giving us what we do not deserve. Mercy is withholding what we do deserve. When Noah’s family could have been wiped out in the flood with the rest of the world, God extended His love, mercy, and kindness.

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About the Author
Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

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