Think about it: When was the last time you invited someone who doesn't believe in Jesus for dinner or coffee? Have you shared lunch with any notorious sinners lately, besides yourself? Jesus spent time with the social and spiritual outcasts — and so should you. If you long to accept the mercy and forgiveness of Jesus today, we'd love to pray with you. We encourage you to pray a prayer asking Jesus to enter your life today, right where you are.
Then, submit your prayer request HERE so our spiritual care team can be praying for you as you start your journey with Jesus. For more on the topic of mercy, check out this additional content from Liquid Church:. Liquid Church. Like Jesus, we should enter into their pain and show them both justice and mercy. I hope that seeing homelessness affects all of us deeply — to see a fellow human with no place to rest their head. Here are some tips that can help you make a difference in your city:.
Sometimes that means risking our own comfort to serve Jesus in the sick and dying. Now this one is interesting. Ever since I was a little kid this act of mercy interested me the most.
Because the idea of going to a prison and visiting the imprisoned blew my mind. Second, how does one even go about this? Obviously the idea of death is terrifying. As you can see all these ideas and acts of mercy are super doable and at the same time challenging.
I really want to say that we were given this year of mercy for a reason. Now go forth my young Padawans and make Pope Francis and your Mother proud. Just a girl aspiring to be the patron saint of awkward situations. I'm a student at Ave Maria University and a lover of all things nerdy. I'm a daughter of the King of Kings therefore I'm the princess of princesses.
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Donate Subscribe. Life Teen Blog. What an exciting time to be alive! Get a group friends to help make sack lunches at your local homeless shelter. Have a food kit in your car of some non-perishable foods. This one is a little unconventional but why not offer to pay for your friends lunch or drink?
Start a fundraiser at school to raise money for your local food shelter. Call around town asking certain soup kitchens when they serve dinner and get a group of friends or even your family to help serve dinner once a month. At your local church you can start a food drive. Parishioners can drop off food at the church and you can take it to your local food drive. Help serve pancake breakfast with the Knights of Columbus.
Give Drink to the Thirsty So many people in our world are hurting and unsatisfied. Make a fast for a month of only drinking water and offer it up for those in need. Donate baby formula to pregnancy help center.
And pray for the grace to help bring Him souls. It is loving to point out sin, to explain why it is wrong, and what the consequences are. Scripture tells us to gently confront those who are sinning. When can gently correct our children by helping them to see consequences without condemnation. When appropriate, we can show mercy by taking the cost upon ourselves, not demanding anything of the other person whether payment or payback. This is what Jesus did for us.
God has made mercy His catalyst for repentance. It is mercy that leads a sinner to repentance Romans The natural consequence is to allow them to go without lunch. Showing mercy also means having compassion for the suffering of another. Another way to to show mercy is to clean up a mess that they made. Doing this is showing mercy in taking on the consequences of something your child has done.
In life, God does allow us to face the natural consequences of our mistakes. He does leave our messes for us to clean up. But he also shows us mercy. We do not pay the full price for our sins.
We do not stand condemned and He does fix some of our mistakes. So we parents too should follow in this pattern of our heavenly Father. Pin this for later! I believe the Bible is best viewed through the lens of the gospel — the life and words of Jesus. He was referring to Hosea and again quotes Hosea in Matthew So what are the biblical instructions for believers regarding mercy? What does it mean that God desires mercy not sacrifice? Mercy triumphs over judgment. They were judged and required to pay the penalty in order to restore them to temporary good standing.
When Christ died on the cross, God took the cost of our sins on Himself because He had compassion on us. It is this mercy that makes us eternally righteous. Mercy won the epic battle over sin. It opened the door to relationship and connection with God. It made us His children. Mercy triumphed over judgment.
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