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Excerpted from: Children of the LightOnce again, I look at this as how we treat other people. It has to do with how we treat each other and how we treat other people. You see, a merciful person is actually someone you like to be with. You like to be around them. You do not have to worry about them judging you so harshly, do you, because they are merciful people. They have compassion about them. So you really like to be with them. You actually like to see them coming. Those are the ones you want to make your friends, right? You want to be close to.
So the word most often translated mercy in the King James Version, it actually conveys strong feelings of pity, sympathy, compassion, and affection. And the Old Testament word is sometimes translated as lovingkindness, and that word, I believe, is hesed, which is, according to the Hebrew scholars, most likely the word that would be closest to the equivalent of the Greek word agape. So it is translated lovingkindness in the King James, and sometimes it is actually translated as mercy. And that describes one important aspect of mercy. When God looks on suffering people, people that are hurting, He feels compassionate toward them in their needs.
Remember, compassion always precedes mercy because compassion is more of the emotional part of it, you know; you have this feeling, it is emotion, that you have pity for something or you feel sympathy or compassion towards somebody or affection, and that precedes mercy. And mercy is the action. It is what you follow through with and do to try to help in whatever way you can.
Matthew 5:7
Excerpted from: Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment!One of Jesus' well-known beatitudes emphasizes that showing mercy is a hallmark of godly behavior and is accompanied by the promise that those who are merciful will receive God's mercy.
Blessed are the merciful refers to those deeply moved by others' suffering and eager to ease it, and this is regarded as a sign of true virtue and it is believed that showing mercy will lead to receiving it in return. Such acts should be performed with the intention of glorifying God, obeying His commandments, and seeking His honor, remembering that we are helping His children. And when done with this mindset, God sees them as acts of virtue offered to Him, and He will reward us.
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