Love is mercy put into action

One of the classes I had to take for my Masters degree in theology was an Old Testament class. For one of the papers we were tasked with picking some aspect of God and mining the text for information about this particular characteristic. By “mine the text” the professor meant that we were to use only the Scriptures to write the paper, no commentaries or books by other people who investigated a similar focus. We were charged to dig around in the books, chapters, and verses for nuggets that exemplified our topic. The subject I went digging for was the mercy of God.