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GOD WANTS MERCIFUL MEN
Matthew 5:7: "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
God calls for merciful men--men who are not hard-nosed, heavy-handed, or over-bearing.
Men, the Scriptures make it abundantly plain that our God is indeed a very merciful God. Numbers 14:18: "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."
Jeremiah 33:11: "Praise the Lord of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth forever."
Lamentations 3:22: "If is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Because we have received such great mercy through our Lord Jesus Christ, we of all people, should show mercy to our fellowmen. Men, our wives and families should know us to be merciful. Why is it that so many Christians condemn, criticize, and harshly judge one another? Someone has aptly said that the Christian church is the only army that shoots its own wounded.
Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:33-37. He was not Jew, but showed great mercy and compassion to the man who was stripped of clothes, beaten, robbed, and left to die on the road going to Jericho. But the Jewish priest and Levite were not merciful and passed by on the other side of the road. They trusted in God's mercy toward themselves and yet were not prepared to show the same mercy to a wounded fellow man on the same road they traveled.
To be continued.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
