{"id":39131,"date":"2026-02-02T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39131"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:54:50","slug":"260203-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260203-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy That Abounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Scripture says in Romans 5:20 that \u201cthe more we see our sinfulness, the more we see God\u2019s abounding grace<\/strong>.\u201d To abound is to have a surplus, an abundance, an extravagant portion.<\/p>\n

Should the fish in the Pacific worry that it will run out of ocean?\u00a0 No, why? Because the ocean abounds with water. Need the lark be anxious about finding room in the sky to fly? \u00a0No, the sky abounds with space. \u00a0So should the Christian worry that the cup of mercy will run empty? \u00a0He may. For he may not be aware of God\u2019s abounding grace. Are you?<\/p>\n

Are you aware that the cup God gives you overflows with mercy?\u00a0 Or are you afraid your cup will run dry? Or your mistakes are too great for God\u2019s grace? God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low on cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy!<\/p>\n

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Scripture says in Romans 5:20 that \u201cthe more we see our sinfulness, the more we see God\u2019s abounding grace.\u201d To abound is to have a surplus, an abundance, an extravagant portion.<\/p>\n

Should the fish in the Pacific worry that it will run out of ocean?\u00a0 No, why? Because the ocean abounds with water. Need the lark be anxious about finding room in the sky to fly? \u00a0No, the sky abounds with space. \u00a0So should the Christian worry that the cup of mercy will run empty? \u00a0He may. For he may not be aware of God\u2019s abounding grace. Are you?<\/p>\n

Are you aware that the cup God gives you overflows with mercy?\u00a0 Or are you afraid your cup will run dry? Or your mistakes are too great for God\u2019s grace? God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low on cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39133,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131\/revisions\/39133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}