God Delights to Show Mercy

I've been reading the bible through in a year.  It's a plan through You Version and I really like it.  It's sad to say that I have never read the bible through and so I figured it was about time.  I've been working on it for almost two years now, mostly because I read a lot of commentary, so it usually takes me two days to complete one plan day of chapters.  I only have 14 days left.  I am honestly ready to be done.  It feels like I have been at it forever!  So, I confessed to Doug just yesterday that I was kinda getting in the habbit of reading the chapters just to check it off that I did because I'm so ready to be done.  Well, this morning, God spoke to me and I had to just stop and meditate on what He had to say to me.  I'm so glad I did!

Micah 7:18-19
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.  You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

The phrase that I just had to stop on was delight to show mercy.  God delights in showing me mercy!  He enjoys showing me His goodness and His forgiveness.  When I think of someone forgiving me, I think of a sigh and an I guess attitude, knowing that they're just waiting until they can bring it back up and throw it in my face.  Not so with God.  He delights in offering me forgiveness.  Did you notice the next verse?  You will again have compassion on us.    He not only delights in showing us mercy, He never tires of it.  He will forgive us and let us start anew over and over and over again.  His mercy never fails, it is new every morning.  

As I was thinking about just how huge of a promis this is, I thought "Wow!  God must really love me!"  I was up for awhile last night.  I just couldn't sleep.  David Crowder's Song You are My Joy just kept playing over and over in my head.  Well, as soon as I had the thought about how much God loves me, that song popped in my head and it wasn't me singing it to God.  It was like He was singing it to me!

I am His joy.
He delights in me!
Wow!  What an amazing thing to just meditate on.