Mercy Runs Deep
When grace shows up where it shouldn't.
The God who gives more than fairness.
The big idea
Mercy is grace where you expected justice — and it changes everything.
What does “Mercy Runs Deep” walk through?
His Mercies Are New
Lamentations 3:22-23 · KJV
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed... they are new every morning.
In plain English
We're not destroyed because of God's mercy — and that mercy is fresh every single morning.
Yesterday Doesn't Carry Over
However badly you handled yesterday — the mercy is reset overnight. You don't start today carrying yesterday's failure. You start with new mercy. That's not theology. That's a real thing you're invited to live in.
Blessed Are the Merciful
Matthew 5:7 · KJV
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
In plain English
If you give mercy, you'll find it given back to you.
“Mercy is the family resemblance of those who've received it.”
Pass It Down
If God's been merciful to you, it should leak. Be merciful with yourself. With the slow person. With your worst-acting child. With the failure who keeps failing. The mercy you've received needs somewhere to go.
Pray
Father, your mercy is fresh today. Help me receive it. Help me hand it out. Soften the parts of me that have gone hard.
Write it down
Where do you most need mercy today? Where do you need to give it?
You finished: Mercy Runs Deep
Mercy received that doesn't leak isn't really received. Let it leak today.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Lamentations 3:22-23, Matthew 5:7. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 6 short sittings.
- Lamentations 3:22-23
- Matthew 5:7
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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