Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.

The Scottish preacher Alexander Whyte recounted the story of a visit he paid to a prominent lawyer in Glasgow. He said that when he entered the office, the lawyer asked, “Do you have a message for an old sinner?”

Whyte responded by sharing Micah 7:8, “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.”

God would have every right to delight in justice. Sin is an awful thing in his eyes and deserves punishment. Yet, instead, God’s love and grace are so wonderful that He delights in extending mercy to us. And He calls for us to do the same in our dealings with others.