Mercy

Have you ever needed someone to extend mercy to you? You did something wrong, thoughtless, or perhaps careless. You felt bad and desired forgiveness. You asked to be forgiven. What if their heart was hardened and they said, “no”? And how horrible it would be if our Heavenly Father refused to forgive us. Quite the opposite. 

Second Corinthians 1:3 tells us that God is the Father of mercies. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.” 

Mercy flows from our Father. It’s His nature. He is the original transmitter of mercy. So when you go to a Christian sister or brother and ask forgiveness and they extend mercy, they are a reflection of their Father—the Father of mercies. 

The good news doesn’t stop with God being a transmitter of mercy and our Christian brothers and sisters being transmitters of mercy. The good news is we can be transmitters of mercy also, reflections of our Father. 

In today’s culture, it can be easy sometimes for a person to be offended. They may hold grudges and not want to forgive or extend mercy. However, what a precious opportunity it is for believers to show mercy as our Heavenly Father does. Let’s make it a point to do this well. 

FATHER OF MERCIES, thank You for extending mercy to me. May I be quick to extend mercy to others and reflect well on You. 

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Have you ever known a hard-hearted person? In other words, no matter how hard you tried, they shut you out. If you did anything wrong, they were relentless and unforgiving. Not so with our Lord. Although He has every reason to be hard-hearted toward us, He instead pursues and forgives us. What a tender-hearted Lord we have!

This is important – in Ephesians 4:32 He commands us to be like Him – kind, tender-hearted, and forgiving each other. If there’s someone you’re hard-hearted toward, this would be a good time to “forgive, as God in Christ has forgiven us.”

Lord, we praise You for being TENDER-HEARTED toward us. Thank You for Your mercy! Thank You for Your grace!  Help us faithfully follow You and forgive others as You have forgiven us. 

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UPLIFT is a blog that focuses on ways we can please the Lord by living our lives before Him in an UPLIFTing way. We can:

• Wise UP and benefit by living according to His teachings.
• Lift UP our eyes to Him when we don't know what to do.
• Armor UP to be equipped to resist temptation.
• Stand UP for our convictions.

But, how about the everyday subject of how we're eating? Ouch! I don't like to talk much about this topic, but bear with me. In a day where food is genetically engineered and super-sized, isn't it important that we eat UP healthily as unto the Lord? After all, the Bible does discuss this. Whereas the word "love" occurs 348 times in the Bible, "eat" occurs 527 times.
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