This week and next week, we will be looking at Jesus' beatitude in His sermon on the mount:
"BLESSED are the merciful,
for they shall receive mercy."
Today, join me in meditating on the following. There are three times in the gospels that Jesus uses the word "merciful". The first two are in His sermon on the mount.
Matthew 5:7
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy."
Matthew 6:36
"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
Luke 18:9-14
9 And He also told this parable
to some people who trusted in themselves
that they were righteous,
and viewed others with contempt:
10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray,
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself:
‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people:
swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
13 But the tax collector,
standing some distance away,
was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven,
but was beating his breast, saying,
‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’
14 I tell you,
this man went to his house justified rather than the other;
for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
I see that:
1. When I choose to be merciful, I am BLESSED to get mercy in return.
2. My model for mercy, is my heavenly Father.
3. Requesting mercy requires humility on my part.
What do you see in these 3 scriptures?
BLESSED! OH, THE JOY!
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