One of the most precious attributes of God is that of His mercy. The Hebrew and Greek words that are translated into English as “mercy” have the basic idea of kindness. In fact, one of those words is usually translated as His lovingkindness or His covenant faithfulness. We find that to be true of God’s forgiveness as He does not give us what we deserve. More than that, it’s because of His mercy that He gives us the opposite of what we deserve. He gives us His love, and shows it to us in so many ways, as we read in the opening verses of Psalm 103. The Bible has much to say about mercy.