Article May 7, 1966 Issue

The Mercy of God

LA VONA LINHARDT

The Psalmist sang, "O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever."^{Ps. 136:1;} Mercy is one of God's attributes, a quality of divine Mind. Because the real man is an idea of Mind, as Christian Science teaches, he is coexistent with Mind and can never be separated from mercy. The omnipresence and omnipotence of Mind, God, preclude any absence of mercy.

How grateful we can be that God's mercy is eternal and omnipresent! Our backslidings from goodness, our trespasses of divine law, would long since have annihilated us if it had not been for His mercy.

This does not mean, however, that one can continue in wrongdoing. Repentance and reformation are prerequisites for obtaining God's mercy. These may require mighty wrestlings with the mortal sense of life and its claims of human nature. The individual must recognize wrongdoing as evil and then forsake it before he is ready to receive God's mercy.

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