Exodus 34:1-35 KJV
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
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.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

I often taken back by God's boldness of proclaiming who he is. Declaring his mercy, grace, longsuffering and abundant goodness and truth,keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and trangression and sin of many generations. Moses had experienced God's wrath seeing it with his eyes on Egypt. He also knew the protection of the first born. He seen God's mercy as Israel outran Pharoah and his troops, and God slaying the enemy by drowning them in the red sea as the water moved back, after Israel passed through. Israel was not a small group of people, it had grown in four hundred and some years, plus they had people that were not necessarily Israelites but had witness the destruction of Egypt by God through Moses.

Why am I taken back by God's boldness and declaration of who he is. I live in this generation that more of prove to me who you are attitude when it comes to relationships, then take you at your word. It like a car dealship you go to buy a car and the dealer says I give you a real good deal, and my attitude is prove it. I do fear God in realization of who He is, and that is more powerful then I will ever be and that he squish me like an ant if he desires. However I am realist in the since, I do not just want to take God's word, I want to see it in action. It not that I do not believe him, I want evidence of his mercy.

I will Guarantee God is not going to give you a list of your past sins and show you his mercy if you have been forgiven. In fact he does not keep score if you saved by Christ Jesus. However the devil likes to try and keep score, even take a clipboard and right your transgression down, and then have everyone else do likewise. If God mercy implied with salvation through Christ Jesus, there no tally of faults. It does not mean God will not correct his people. Sin must get to the point He refuses to overlook it anymore, refuses to allow the blood to cover without discipline. Correction is not a score card, but a note of you are better then that, don't do it again, or I show you the cost of those that follow your example, or the sin you are doing yourself. Sexual immorality might not seem to cost you, but ask those with sexual transmitted diseases if all of sudden the reality of their actions have not caused them to think about what they do either for a living, or a life style. It the same principle everytime there is a death, our brains go through the process of grief and reality of one's own morality. The realization we are aging and death is nearer then we like to think, and yet it is to a life that will be more abundant with God and Christ Jesus and not in the torment with the devil. We go through the process of realization and a need to go on and live, because those gone, though remembered no longer live. The process as we move each day forward, we grieve less and move toward hopefully a brighter tomorrow. Sin like is like that, we bury it for good, it will not return, it gone, it dead, it not part of who we are as believers. Temptation, and memories of sin still exist in us, but not to our Heavenly Father, who only see our brighter future.

God's declaration in scripture tells who he is and will be to his children if they follow, believe, and turn from their wicked ways. His mercy shown with repentance and his love show through his grace when we need his mercy and understanding because of our humanity. He willing to suffer with us and teach us right from wrong his path of righteousness. Those that desire not him do not always receive mercy or grace, their sins pile up to the brink of final judgment.

Those who find his mercy find everlasting life through his grace. For those who have mercy for others will find mercy as well. God's declaration are not just words, but there is proof of his words, because even Moses failed, and found mercy and not God's wrath when he repented. He broke the first stone tablets with the laws written down, and had to go back up and have God write them all out again. It was a forty day process. We have to ask why is it not instant, God does things in stages it seems, to teach us perhaps patience and skills. Whatever the reason some more time had to pass before it was all carved out. Maybe if nothing else to show Moses that when he came down the mountain the people were still worshipping him. See Moses had gone on a killing spread of those that knelt to molten calf. Yet those remain were tested for forty days more so they could have those laws on a stone tablet. No one rebelled on that. Moses came down, read the laws and the people agreed to the laws of God. Mercy not shown to those who sinned by Moses.

Dear Heavenly Father thank you for your mercy. Help us to show mercy. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Matthew 5:7 KJV
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.