Ex. 34:6-7
Question
How has God’s love and mercy helped you change?
Scripture
6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Ex. 34:6-7
Quote
The more I come to know my Heavenly Father, the more I see how He inspires and leads His children. He is not angry, vengeful, or retaliatory. His very purpose—His work and His glory—is to mentor us, exalt us, and lead us to His fulness.
God described Himself to Moses as “merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.”
Our Father in Heaven’s love for us, His children, surpasses by far our ability to comprehend.
Does this mean that God condones or overlooks behaviors that run contrary to His commands? No, definitely not!
But He wants to change more than just our behaviors. He wants to change our very natures. He wants to change our hearts.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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