The first thing most people do when confronted with life-threatening problems is to ask God for help and mercy. We often attribute acts of mercy only to God, for he abounds in mercy and forgiveness, but does God expect us to show mercy to others as an act of our gratitude?
Matthew 18 includes a story of a man whose debts were so out of bounds, his creditor threatened legal procedures. Then motivated by an act of mercy, the creditor forgave the entire debt. Instead of extending mercy to those indebted to him, however, this man viciously demanded payment.
David extended mercy to Saul by refusing to take revenge against him, but Saul refused to extend mercy to David and in doing so, set himself up for tragedy. God expects us to show mercy as an expression of thanksgiving for the abundant mercy he has shown us.
Do you need to extend mercy to someone today? Then do it!
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God
blesses those people who are merciful. They will be shown mercy!
~Matthew
5:7 Contemporary English Version
So
let us continue coming with courage to the throne of God’s unmerited favor to
obtain his mercy and to find his spiritual strength to help us when we need it.
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