Daily Verse: Luke 6:36

“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

To be “merciful”, is to be compassionate, kind, lenient, generous…to be sympathetic, gracious, charitable, and forgiving. It’s incredible how merciful our Lord is to us each day. While we still speak sinful words, harbor sinful thoughts, and commit sinful actions, he still remains compassionate, generous, charitable, and forgiving. God would be justified to count up our daily mistakes and hold us to the fire at the end of the day, dolling out the punishment that we are due. He would be justified to strip us of every blessing that he previously provided…our homes, our food, our jobs, our money, our family. Yet he does not, for he is merciful. So since he is merciful, we are called to be merciful as well. We are to be compassionate to someone struggling to get on their feet…we are to be generous when approached with an outstretched hand looking for a meal…we are to be lenient when someone crosses us in a negative way…we are to forgive, no matter what wrong has been committed. Not just because it is “right”, but because it is exactly what is extended to us on a daily basis from the Lord…continuous and complete mercy! We can’t be perfect…therefore we depend wholeheartedly on God being merciful. And if it were not for God’s mercy…if it were not for that incredible, unexplainable, illogical LOVE from God…we would be completely out of luck. May the Lord fill our lives with mercy for those around us, so that we may mirror the same love, compassion, and forgiveness that has been extended to each of us. To God be the glory!