Reflecting on Thomas Watson's Quote on Mercy

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Mercy is usually defined as, "kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could be treated harshly or kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation."  When it comes to the mercy of God, I do not deserve it because He is just and I am not.  Salvation for the sinner has been God's divine justice falling upon His Son the Lord Jesus Christ so the undeserving sinner can get forgiveness by trusting in the Son making salvation a very act of mercy.  Every sinner should be crying out for God's mercy and not justice but until they repent of their sinfulness, they will not truly cry out for mercy and forgiveness.  

Mercy has been the oil to the wheel to make it run faster.  The sinner is like the wheel that needs to be oiled so it can run.  The idea of works salvation is not only the cart before the horse but expecting the wheel that has not been oiled to run faster.  God's mercy grants forgiveness and new life that the Christian can truly live to fulfill God's Law.  Only fools say that God's mercy is a license to sin because truly saved people are those who genuinely cried out for mercy aware of their guilt.  Those who believe that they can receive the Lord Jesus Christ and sin all they want are fraud converts who will inevitably fall away from the things of God.


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