God “delighteth in mercy.” “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” To Him the work of destruction and the denunciation of judgment is a “strange work.” But it is in mercy and love that He lifts the veil from the future, and reveals to men the results of a course of sin.—The Desire of Ages, 582.
The Word of God reveals His character. He Himself has declared His infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed, “Show me Thy glory,” the Lord answered, “I will make all My goodness pass before thee.” This is His glory. The Lord passed before Moses, and proclaimed, “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” He is “slow to anger, and of great kindness,” “because He delighteth in mercy.”—Steps to Christ, 10. RRe 46
The Word of God contains our life insurance policy. To eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God means to study the Word and to carry that Word into the life in obedience to all its precepts. Those who thus partake of the Son of God become partakers of the divine nature, one with Christ. They breathe a holy atmosphere, in which only the soul can truly live. They carry in their lives an assurance of the holy principles received from the Word—their lives are worked by the power of the Holy Spirit, and they have an earnest of the immortality that will be theirs through the death and resurrection of Christ. Should the earthly body decay, the principles of their faith sustain them, for they are partakers of the divine nature. Because Christ was raised from the dead, they grasp the pledge of their resurrection, and eternal life is their reward. Hvn 54
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. Micah 7:18. KJV