Exodus 32

Mercy is God not giving people what they deserve. You, like Israel, stand before God condemned because of your sins. You have made your own false gods. You haven’t given God the glory for the gifts and deliverances He has given you. You have used His gifts for sin. You have used your gift of speech to lie, be vulgar, and not give Him His due glory. You have used your sight to distract your mind from worshipping Him and looked at evil things. You have used your health to create idols of activities that draw your heart away from Him and you have used your health to pursue sexual sin. You have used the wealth that He has given to purchase things that lead you into sin.

The justice of God is that He fairly struck down Israel. But we need His mercy, not His fairness. It is not fair that He would offer us forgiveness. The point o ...