What is the difference between God's Mercy and His Grace?

Question

What is your sincere opinion? Are we given one or both? What do we have to do to get either? Do we deserve either of them?

Answer 1

We do not deserve either both are gifts.Grace is what we get that helps us understand God"s Mercy.

Answer 2

Through God's grace, we are given the opportunity to receive His mercy. His grace is given freely, because He loves us and wants us to be close to Him, but His mercy is a precious gift that is not automatically bestowed on us....only when we accept Him as our Creator and admit that we are nothing without Him can we be deserving of that mercy. God and His Son are the only perfect Beings in the world, and because God believes that we are important enough to live in His world, I think we are deserving of both His grace and His mercy. It's each individual's responsibility to ask for, and receive, this gift. God has been blamed for the state that the world is in, but I believe that much of the suffering is a result of people turning away from God, and rejecting the protection that He would so much love to give.

Answer 3

God’s love for all of mankind results in the fact that God shows His mercy by not immediately punishing people for their sins (Romans 3:23; 6:23). If God did not love everyone, we would all be in hell right now. God’s love for the world is manifested in the fact that He gives people the opportunity to repent (2 Peter 3:9).

Grace is God’s giving us something we cannot earn or deserve. According to Romans 11:6, “work” of any kind destroys grace—the idea is that a worker earns payment, while the recipient of grace simply receives it, unearned. Since salvation is all of grace, it cannot be earned. Faith, therefore, is a non-work.

Answer 4

We deserve neither , but God's mercy he send his son to die for us. His mercies fail not. it is all over the Bible .

His grace saves us, & keeps us, when we fall out of his will, we loose that peace or grace he freely gives , that we have when we are faithful. His mercy then forgives us, when his Grace draws us back, HE always wants to give us grace & as the burdens become worse he gives more grace. Mercy keeps us we have both, it's hard to separate the 2.

but remember, we still have his mercy always, even if he takes us home, but we will have his grace, if we are in his will.

Answer 5

Here's something I found at this website [http://megagrace.com/#Grace%20is%20differentiated]: "In its basic definition Mercy can be defined as us not getting something that we do deserve; e.g. if we deserve punishment for something that we did, an act of Mercy would pardon us and we no longer receive punishment. Therefore Mercy e.g. takes care of the consequences of negative actions, while Grace on top of an act of Mercy provides us with additional 'benefits.' As an illustration: When we rightly deserve punishment, Mercy provides relief for us so that we do not receive punishment, and on top of it aside from the pardon (act of Mercy) we receive gifts and benefits (act of Grace) which we don't deserve, but such were bestowed upon us by the provider of Grace."
We're given both, but we can't do a THING to deserve it. All we have to do is ask. When we ask for forgiveness for our sins, Jesus gives us His Grace AND His Mercy, even though we're about as far from deserving it as we can be!
I've been blessed to have received God's mercy and grace countless times, and it's the best thing this life can offer! God bless you!!

Answer 6

Mercy
Consider, for example, the Hebrew verb ra·cham′, which is often rendered “show mercy” or “have pity.” One reference work explains that the verb ra·cham′ “expresses a deep and tender feeling of compassion, such as is aroused by the sight of weakness or suffering in those that are dear to us or need our help.”

Grace
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, by J. H. Thayer, explains the meaning of the word used by the apostle Paul to describe this quality of God: “The word [kha′ris] contains the idea of kindness which bestows upon one what he has not deserved.” No works of ours can earn God’s blessing. It is, as Paul says, an undeserved kindness. If you are sincerely doing all you can within your limitations to fulfill your obligations to God, be happy at doing that.

Answer 7

GOD's shows mercy to us by his willingness to accept of us back into his presence after we have sinned against him. I believe that we are given HIS mercy when we ask for it but are blessed with HIS grace. It is something that is granted to everyone, all anyone has to do is have faith and call upon the LORD. I do not believe that we deserve anything but must work for it.

Answer 8

God's mercy is forgiving us when we've done something wrong or thoughtless. God's grace is giving us what we don't deserve (i.e., even though we are imperfect, he accepts us into his kingdom, or gives us blessings on earth, eg., a woman can have a child even though she's not worthy, but by allowing this to happen (or even causing it), God can make her into the kind of person who would have deserved to have a child. My sincere opinion (at this moment in time) is that none of us is perfect, we just try our best (and sometimes don't even do that), but God loves us the way we are. (Just as we love our children, no matter what they do.) I think God's love for us is like a parent's love for their children. At times they disappoint and hurt us, even break our hearts, but we love them and want the best for them. We give them gifts they don't deserve (material and non-material), even though they haven't always behaved the best. (grace) And we forgive them when they wrong us (mercy). We know they are growing and learning (epecially if we can remember the errors of our own youth). Most of all, we want to be close to them, to love them and to be loved by them, "warts and all".

Answer 9

God's Mercy and Graces are connected.You cant have one without the other. Those who accept God's Mercy are rewarded with unfathomable Graces.Jesus wants us to meditate on His sorrowful Passion,to worship and glorify the Mercy of God and thus in virtue of His sorrowful Passion to implore graces for the whole World. Jesus said "Do whatever is in your power to spread devotion to My Mercy.I will make up for what you lack.Tell aching mankind to snuggle close to My Merciful Heart and i will fill it with peace.The more a soul trusts ,the more it will receive.Souls that trust boundlessly are a great comfort to Me,because i pour all the treasures of My Graces into them."

Answer 10

Mercy is given although we don't deserve it.

Romans 1:5
Through him and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

We are in the Grace age, when Jesus returns Grace ends.
Anyone who isn't covered by the blood of Christ, will face the wrath of God.

The one thing we have to do is believe Jesus.