What does merciful mean? It means: kindhearted, compassionate, sympathetic, and forgiving.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Lk 6:36 EHV) As our Father forgives our sins repeatedly, we should also forgive and forget the sins of others against us.
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. (Eph 5:1 NKJV) In every way, as much as we have the grace to do so, we should imitate the mercy of God in our dealings with other people. Let us be kindhearted and compassionate in imitation of our Father in heaven.
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. (Heb 2:17 NKJV) Jesus was a merciful and faithful High Priest in that He became the sacrifice upon the altar to reconcile mankind to God the Father.
For I will be merciful in regard to their unrighteousness, and I will not remember their sins any longer. (Heb 8:12 EHV) Thanks to Jesus, our Father forgives our sins and does not remember them against us. What a gift of love and mercy we have been given!
In obedience to the Word, may each of us strive to be sympathetic to others and to be faithful representatives of Jesus and His love in a dark and hurting world.
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