Being Vessels of Mercy & Forgiveness

July 12, 2020 - Today our God sets His limitless mercy right before us all. We come before God constantly in need of His mercy and forgiveness over all of our shortcomings and failures. We ask for a gift we could never earn nor deserve. And, rather than giving us what we do deserve He grants us just the opposite. He takes us to Himself, forgives us, heals us, and gives us power to be transformed. This is mercy. In our Gospel reading from St. Luke Chapter 6, our Lord Jesus Christ then commands us to give mercy in the same way as we have received it to all of those around us. This message is an exhortation for us all to walk in mercy toward one another in a time when Satan seeks to divide the children of the Living God.