GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD

God is a Merciful God

Jeremiah wrote often of how compassionate and merciful God was

Lamentations 3

22 ¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

31 For the Lord will not cast off forever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

God loves us and wants us to succeed.  He wants us to be happy.  He is always there for us and has great compassion for us and our plight in life.  But it is important that we repent, that we follow His commandments.  It is through the process of repentance that we especially feel his compassion and love for us.

The greatest act of compassion was when the Savior satisfied the demands of justice and stood in our place and suffered the penalty for our sins

On lds.org it says

God’s compassion may seem to conflict with the law of justice, which requires that no unclean thing be permitted to dwell with Him (see 1 Nephi 10:21). But the Atonement of Jesus Christ made it possible for God to “be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also” (Alma 42:15).

The Savior satisfied the demands of justice when He stood in our place and suffered the penalty for our sins. Because of this selfless act, the Father can mercifully withhold punishment from us and welcome us into His presence. To receive the Lord’s forgiveness, we must sincerely repent of our sins. As the prophet Alma taught, “Justice exerciseth all his demands, and also mercy claimeth all which is her own; and thus, none but the truly penitent are saved” (Alma 42:24; see also Alma 42:22–23, 25).

Forgiveness of sin is not the only gift of mercy from Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Every blessing we receive is an act of mercy, more than we could ever merit on our own. Mormon taught, “All things which are good cometh of Christ; otherwise men were fallen, and there could no good thing come unto them” (Moroni 7:24). For example, we are recipients of divine mercy when Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers, when we receive guidance from the Holy Ghost, and when we are healed from sickness through priesthood power. Although all such blessings come as results of our obedience, we could never receive them through our efforts alone. They are merciful gifts from a loving and compassionate Father.

President J Reuben Clark Jr was said 

“You know, I believe that the Lord will help us. I believe if we go to him, he will give us wisdom, if we are living righteously. I believe he will answer our prayers. I believe that our Heavenly Father wants to save every one of his children. I do not think he intends to shut any of us off because of some slight transgression, some slight failure to observe some rule or regulation. There are the great elementals that we must observe, but he is not going to be captious about the lesser things.

“I believe that his juridical concept of his dealings with his children could be expressed in this way: I believe that in his justice and mercy, he will give us the maximum reward for our acts, give us all that he can give, and in the reverse, I believe that he will impose upon us the minimum penalty which it is possible for him to impose.”

“I often think that one of the most beautiful things in the Christ’s life was his words on the cross, when, suffering under the agony of a death that is said to have been the most painful that the ancients could devise, death on the cross, after he had been unjustly, illegally, contrary to all the rules of mercy, condemned and then crucified, when he had been nailed to the cross and was about to give up his life, he said to his Father in heaven, as those who were within hearing testify: ‘… Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do’ (Luke 23:34).”

God has shown us great mercy, compassion, and love.  In turn, we need to do the same thing.  In the scriptures it says "Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy." Matthew 5

I love what President Hinckley once said in the April 1990 conference " I am convinced that there comes a time, possibly many times, within our lives when we might cry out for mercy on the part of others. How can we expect it unless we have been merciful ourselves?"

God's Mercy

God of Mercy - Prayer Song

Below is a list of other places in the scriptures where God has showed mercy and/or compassion --

shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, Ex. 20:6.

proclaimed … Lord God, merciful and gracious, Ex. 34:6 (Neh. 9:31).

Lord thy God is a merciful God, Deut. 4:31.

covenant and mercy with them that love him, Deut. 7:9.

his mercies are great, 2 Sam. 24:14.

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, Ps. 25:6.

according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, Ps. 69:16.

father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them, Ps. 103:13.

mercy of the Lord is from everlasting, Ps. 103:17.

our God is merciful, Ps. 116:5.

they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, Isa. 49:15.

with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, Isa. 54:8.

God … retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy, Micah 7:18.

Lord had shewed great mercy upon her, Luke 1:58.

Be … merciful, as your Father also is merciful, Luke 6:36.

it is … of God that sheweth mercy, Rom. 9:16.

might glorify God for his mercy, Rom. 15:9.

Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1:3.

God, who is rich in mercy, Eph. 2:4.

according to his mercy he saved us, Titus 3:5.

wisdom that is from above is … full of mercy, James 3:17.

Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, James 5:11.

according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us, 1 Pet. 1:3.

Lord … hath visited men in so much mercy, 2 Ne. 4:26.

O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace, 2 Ne. 9:8.

because of his greatness, and his grace and mercy, 2 Ne. 9:53.

Lord saw fit in his infinite mercy to spare them, Mosiah 28:4.

full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, Alma 9:26.

I have mercy upon you, through mine Only Begotten, Alma 12:33.

he is a merciful Being, even unto salvation, Alma 26:35.

God is merciful unto all who believe on his name, Alma 32:22.

a perfect, just God, and a merciful God, Alma 42:15.

do you let the justice of God, and his mercy … have full sway in your heart, Alma 42:30.

with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, 3 Ne. 22:8.

Little children … alive in him because of his mercy, Moro. 8:19.

merciful unto those who confess their sins, D&C 61:2.

Lord, am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, D&C 76:5.

he is full of mercy, justice, D&C 84:102.

I, the Lord, show mercy unto all the meek, D&C 97:2.