The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 24:13-14 (MSG)
13 Eat honey, dear child—it's good for you— and delicacies that melt in your mouth. 14 Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul— Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 111:1 (ESV)
Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
The Word of God for encouragement:
Matthew 5:7 (ESV)
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
My observation:
Today we return to our meditation on the beatitudes, and today our choice word is mercy. We have to be careful in our understanding of this passage, and not get the cart before the horse. We must realize that God is the first giver of mercy. It is only when we have received mercy, that we can grant mercy, thereby, receiving the promise of a blessing from the Lord.
Titus 3:5 (ESV)
he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV)
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
It is clear in scripture that the believer should show mercy because you have received mercy from the Lord. Notice what Jesus said to Peter when Peter wanted a procedure about forgiveness. Jesus did not give him a procedure, but Jesus gave him a principle to live by.
Matthew 18:32-33 (ESV)
32 Then his master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?'
My prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I am so grateful that I can be counted in the number that has already been blessed by receiving grace and mercy from the Lord. Father, I pray for the grace and the gratefulness to be able to show mercy to others. Father, I hunger and thirst for the blessing that awaits me in mercy's court.
My song:
Praise Waiteth Thee in Mercy's Court (Click on link below to listen to this song):
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/261
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2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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