GRACE AND MERCY

JUST THINKING:

There were times I felt like giving up or throwing in the towel.  If we all really look back,  we will realize that we have come this far because of God's grace and mercy. We see God's grace as unmerited favour (it is beyond that)  and the mercy of God being exempted from judgement we deserve.
Psalms 145:8‭-‬9 NKJV
 says that,  "The Lord  is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord  is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works".
While both terms have similar meanings,  grace and mercy are not the same. To summarize the difference: mercy is God not punishing us as our sins deserve, and grace is God blessing us despite the fact that we do not deserve it. Mercy is deliverance from judgment. Grace is extending kindness to the unworthy.
Mercy is the act of withholding deserved punishment, while grace is the act of endowing unmerited favor. In His mercy, God does not give us punishment we deserve, namely hell; while in His grace, God gives us the gift we do not deserve, namely heaven. Mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve; while grace is God giving us something we do not deserve.
Mercy and grace are the utmost attributes of love. Mercy and grace are two sides of a coin – and the coin is love. You can't appreciate Grace and Mercy if you don't know the love of God. Without the love of God, there can't be mercy and grace. 
We are also supposed to extend God's love to both the people we know and don't know.  If you understand the love of God,  you will realize that you are not better than anyone and you are an expression of his love through his grace and mercy.
Hebrews 4:16 NKJV
 says that, "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need".
The above scripture is loaded in the sense that it speaks about what grace and mercy of God do. Instead of the judgement that we deserve, mercy prevails and Grace helps us in the time of need. 
Today, we need to seek God so that we can obtain his mercy and so that we can find grace in this time of need or help. In the face of this corona virus,  we all cry out to God for his mercy to prevail and his grace to be poured on us. 
People worldwide are stuck, broke, hungry, confused, afraid, scared and frightened. Companies have shut down, boarders have been closed and economies of the world are failing. Many have died and some in critical conditions. Both the infected and the non infected are stuck.  The systems built by men to protect themselves in situations like this have failed.  
God is the only one who can help us now. Indeed "He got the whole world in his hand". So, cry out to him for mercy and grace. I believe He will hear you and I.  He is not deaf like other gods and systems built by men which have failed us all.