Posts with Tag: mercy
(Edited March, 2024)No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends. (Joh 15:13, Amplified Bible).Many Christians all over the world recognise the last week before Easter, as the Hoy Week. It symbolizes the week when Jesus faced the sentence of death, not for what He did wrong but as a sacrifice for the whole world.Was it easy for Him? Definitely not! Imagine Him in the garden, knowing the task which lay before Him. Imagine the description of His sweat falling from His body as great drops of blood. I believe Jesus went through any trauma you can speak of; psychological, physical and mental.
I'm always amazed to read the scathing blast of a Christian self-righteous sermon in print. A couple of Bible passages are always given as a reference to illustrate the point of the sermon. Then the inevitable guilt club is picked up and swung, right at a sinful heart, in perfect judgment.
"How dare you ask God's forgiveness, when you are not forgiving!
How dare you ask for mercy when you are not merciful!" The questions and accusations are hurled like darts at a pulsing target, and when they hit the heart, many things can happen. These accusations can make a person, weighed heavy by sin, feel hopeless, as they suppose that "not even God will forgive my sin." I've seen this happen, and I...
"How dare you ask God's forgiveness, when you are not forgiving!
How dare you ask for mercy when you are not merciful!" The questions and accusations are hurled like darts at a pulsing target, and when they hit the heart, many things can happen. These accusations can make a person, weighed heavy by sin, feel hopeless, as they suppose that "not even God will forgive my sin." I've seen this happen, and I...
