Blessed Are The Merciful

Beloved:

According to Lawrence O. Richard’s Expository Bible Dictionary, mercy is compassion expressed to meet human need. In Christ we have received mercy as God withholds the punishment that we deserve because of our sin. 

Paul, in Ephesians 5:1 tells us that as believers we should be imitators of God. If we are to imitate God will must reflect the quality of mercy. Jesus tells us as much in Luke 6:36 where He says, Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. It may be difficult for us to be merciful to others who have injured or taken advantage of us.

Our first thought may be, “Why should I be merciful to someone who has wronged me and doesn’t deserve my mercy?” What we must keep in the forefront of our mind is that we do not extend mercy to others because they deserve it, we extend mercy to others because that is what God has done for us. None of us were deserving of God’s mercy but He has looked past our faults and met us at our supreme need.

God has promised that if we are merciful to others, He will be merciful to us in our time of need. Do not miss your blessing, be merciful!

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BE ENCOURAGED!

Pastor GField