BQ:  One thing that I love about God is His outstanding mercy. The Old Testament boggles the minds of some people, yet it's rich with physical representations of spiritual realities. One of these physical examples is that of mercy. In the Old Testament, there was the Ark of the Covenant, which is the agreement between God and His people—the Law. Do you know what was placed above the Ark; above the Law, being supreme to that covenant? Look at Exodus 26:34,

"You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies."

It's easy to breeze over this verse, but it's incredibly important.  It shows that mercy ranked higher than God's law, even in the Old Testament, and the gorgeous proof of this is seen in the placement of the mercy seat above and on top of the ark of the covenant containing the sacred law.