Mercy is a characteristic of God’s treatment of His people – and is therefore commended to us as a social ethic for us to follow. We are to be like God -full of mercy as He is. For it is only by God’s heart transforming grace that can make us even willing to have such counterintuitive kindness to others…especially our enemies. (Ephesians 5:1-2) In James 2:12-13, we see that even though God is never obligated to show us mercy – He freely chooses to do so in abundance. But He also warns us here in James that if we refuse to show mercy, we won’t receive it from Him.
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