Flipping A Coin

"God ... endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction...And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy... even us, whom He also called." (Romans 9:19-24)

We humans are rarely merciful to our enemies. However, God is both gracious and merciful to both His enemies and friends.

Christians often say “love the sinner, but hate the sin." It is a nice little catch phrase that justifies judging those we think are worse sinners than us, and sounding all righteous in doing so.

I know it is hard, but we need to try to spread a little mercy around from time to time like our heavenly Father.

"For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all...give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: His mercy endures forever..." (Romans 11:32; Psalm 136)

Sinful people are like a coin in God's hand, with Grace on one side and Mercy on the other.   The coin gets spent for both good and evil over a lifetime.  But when God flips that coin for the last time into the grave, no matter which side comes up, that sinner will come up and out of the grave the winner of the "free gift of eternal life".

"God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)...for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Ephesians 2:4; Romans 6:23)

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