1 Kings 8:23 And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

God’s mercy is experimental. It is discovered by experience by walking with God by faith, with all your heart. We covered this last month in that hearing God, believing God and obeying God is walking by faith, obedience of faith. In doing this we discover who God is in how He treats us mercifully.

It doesn’t always feel that way because we are not perfect in faithfulness. We are human and we mess up and when we do God shows the loving Father side before He shows His merciful side.

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

It is only in repentance that we find mercy. It is in repentance that we have turned from sin, returned to God and by His mercies pushed aside our sins and welcomed us back into covenant relationship. What good have you accomplished in confessing a sin if you are not willing to leave it and return to God?

Matthew 25:21a,b His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things,

Don’t we all want to hear our Lord declare us good and faithful servants? Yet with the same breath He reveals that we have been faithful in only a few things. I don’t feel faithful if I know that I have only been faithful in a few things. How can He say that to us, knowing that?

By His mercies.

Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Human judges can get it wrong, God who judges the hearts and actions of man is right in every judgment. This is a character of God in His interaction with His creation. If we are to trust this God who is Holy, Loving and Just, then He must be right, all the time.

Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

If He were to change, that would indicate our God had been wrong. We depend on that in the promises God makes to us, in that He will not change.

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Yea, meaning yes, His promise is true and Amen, meaning let it be done. Putting it in a different perspective, God’s righteousness is God’s Holiness in action.

Another aspect of being right in everything is truth. Because He is the Righteous God He is the only reliable source of truth. His antithesis is Satan, the father of lies. Because Satan speaks the spirit language he can speak lies to us. Since this is true our only hope of knowing the truth is in knowing God.

John 14:6a Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:

John 14:16-18 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

The Holy Spirit, the third person, is the Spirit of Truth.