| Are you merciful? |
| Why?
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| Because Jesus healed the sick
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| Because Jesus fed the multitudes
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| Because Jesus gave legs to the crippled
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| Because Jesus granted sight to the blind
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| Because Jesus opened the ears of the deaf
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| Because Jesus found prostitutes and tax collectors and drew them into the
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| sphere of His love
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| Because Jesus touched the untouchable
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| And loved the unlovable
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| And forgave the unforgivable
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| And welcomed the undesirable
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| Because Jesus even now saves the otherwise unsavable, why?!
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| Because they deserve it?!
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| When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared
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| He saved us NOT because of works done in righteousness
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| NOT because we met Him halfway
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| NOT because we took the proper steps forward
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| And in good faith have elevated ourselves to the place of the deserving poor
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| But according to His mercy!
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| We are here because Jesus Christ didn’t say with cold indifference
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| «Give them what they deserve, they brought it on themselves!»
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| Jesus Christ IS the Mercy of God!
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| And seeing us in our misery and need
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| He doesn’t just feel for us
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| He takes the necessary action to relieve our distress
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| He leaves the eternal glory of heaven and the perfect fellowship of the Trinity
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| He condescends to us
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| Lives among us
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| Suffers like us
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| Dies for us!
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| Do you understand this?!
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| Have YOU experienced this?!
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| How then is it possible to experience it and not display it?!
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| It isn’t possible!
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| You haven’t experienced it if you don’t display it!
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| The evidence of God’s mercy in your life isn’t determined by how much theology
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| you know
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| By how many books you read
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| But by your active goodness to people in misery and in need!
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| Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy |