Today's promise: God is merciful
Have You Received God's
Mercy?
Praise the Lord, I tell
myself; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, I
tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives my
sins and heals all my diseases. He ransoms me from death and surrounds me with
love and tender mercies.
Psalm 103:1-4 NLT
Having chosen [his people], he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
Romans 8:30 NLT
Pardoned
The essential act of
mercy was to pardon; and pardon in its very essence involves the recognition of
guilt and ill-desert in the recipient. If crime is only a disease which needs
cure, not sin which deserves punishment, it cannot be pardoned. How can you
pardon a man for having a gumboil or a club foot? But the Humanitarian theory
wants simply to abolish Justice and substitute Mercy for it. This means that
you start being "kind" to people before you have considered their
rights, and then force upon them supposed kindnesses which no one but you will
recognize as kindnesses and which the recipient will feel as abominable
cruelties. You have overshot the mark. Mercy, detached from Justice, grows
unmerciful. That is the important paradox. As there are plants which will
flourish only in mountain s oil, so it appears that Mercy will flower only when
it grows in the crannies of the rock of Justice: transplanted to the marshlands
of mere Humanitarianism, it becomes a man-eating weed, all the more dangerous
because it is still called by the same name as the mountain variety.
C. S. LEWIS in God in the Dock
C. S. LEWIS in God in the Dock
Quoted in The Quotable Lewis edited by Wayne Martindale
and Jerry Root (Tyndale House) p 426
Not what thou art, nor
what thou hast been, doth God regard with his merciful eyes, but what thou
wouldst be.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
JULIAN OF NORWICH
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