have victory over his addiction, and then drove him home to sleep. What my friend expected was judgment. He thought he would be fired. What he received, how ever, was mercy, and in this he experienced a parable of the gospel. Psalm 103 is one of the high points in the Psalter, revealing the mercy of God. Here we are crowned with “tender mercies” (v. 4). Here God is identified as “merciful and gracious,” “slow to anger, and abounding in mercy” (v. 8). Here God’s mercy is described as so great “as