Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
A Fistful of Mercy. S31e44 Mt5:7
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It is recommended, in living a beautiful life, to do so with a FISTFUL of MERCY.
Certainly, a fistful of mercy has already been extended to you, and an appropriate response is to live with a fistful of mercy extended toward others. Then as you do so, even more mercy is extended to you. That is, by giving a fistful of mercy you get a fistful of mercy.
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A Fistful of Mercy. S31e44 Mt5:7
Mercy is a beautiful way to live. How can I pull this off? How can I livemercifully?
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Justice is getting exactly what you deserve.
Mercy is getting LESS than what you deserve.
We are merciful because HE IS MERCIFUL
This ladies and gentlemen is a strange operating principle to base the foundations of a kingdom upon.
It is essential characteristic of God, and of a kingdom, otherwise the only occupants of the kingdom are the trinity, are divine.
Mercy is a glue that connects the human to the divine
Mercy is a glue that connects human to human
Mercy is winsome, attractive to God
God seeks after mercy in us; responds mercifully when He sees it Why?
Because it reminds Him of Himself. Mercy is godly for us.
Mercy is small g godly here because it images big G Godly there
Mercy here demonstrates the mercy from there. Now and later
Mercy NOW illustrates a mercy that is to come.
This adjective is found twice in the NT
Once here: Mt5:7 Blessed are the merciful and once in Heb 2: 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Our model, our hero is Jesus and the mercy He demonstrates is to be a model for us
Mercy is getting LESS that what you deserve.
Does that mean that mercy forgets justice?
No, I think the best mercy REMEMBERS justice
Does Mercy flaunt the fact that Justice is NOT being meted out?
Does Mercy rub the face of Justice in it?
Appropriate posture for mercy isn’t that la-de-da I didn’t get justice
Rather: I deserved justice, I deserved getting exactly what I deserved, yet I did not.
Rather than a fistful of justice, I received a fistful of mercy
The best fistful of MERCY remembers a fistful of JUSTICE
Note: this is sort of a commandment: Not, YOU MUST BE MERCIFUL. Forced mercy is no mercy at all. It is compulsion.
Encouraged mercy, pointed in the right dirction mercy? This is the speed of the beatitude.
Living beautifulyy, is living mercifully.
Today, is a call towards beautiful living.
First being merciful—to who? Everybody who needs it.
Second being on the receiving end of mercy
Living mercifully is consequentially to be receiving mercy.
The consequence of mercy is more mercy—replicative
Mercy reproduces. Mercy rebouds.
Sowing mercy reaps mercy
How can I live mercifully?
Identify people and situations where JUSTICE is due.
What circumstance screams for JUSTICE?
Think about places/people where JUSTICE IS DUE, NOT mercy
Who are you mad at with good reason? Who do you wanna strangle? Who is standing on your last nerve? Who, in your thinking, deserves the wrath of your justice? Identify person and the circumstance specifically,
Who do deserves in you life, a FISTFUL of JUSTICE?*****
Then, deliver mercy: a fistful of mercery: thinking mercifully, extendingmercy in actionable way: speaking mercy, doing mercy.
Let mercy power your soul and mind and hands and wallet.
How can I best act with mercy? How can I do mercy best?
Get this empowering right.
Get the source, the motivation right.
I can deliver mercy BEST, when I am aware of the mercy I have been extended.
Know this: you have not received what you deserved:contemporaneous, immediate, definitive, eternal, JUSTICE
Oh if we only knew the abhorrence of sin before the Holy God
Did you get wrath? No. probably not. Light bulb:
Let my awareness grow in the mercy extended to me.
Somehow I have been shown mercy.
The fact that I can even sit here to consider GIVING a fistful of mercymeans that I have already been given a FISTFUL of Mercy.
Here is what the Beatitude says:
Blessed are those who give a fistful of mercy
And secondly, those who give a fistful of mercy shall receive a fistful of mercy.
What it doesn’t explicitly say, but I think it implies is that those
Who DELIVER mercy have already had mercy delivered to them
Those who deliver mercy best, are aware of the mercy delivered to them.
You have been given a fistful of mercy
Therefore, give a fistful of mercy and even more wonderfully,
You shall be given a fistful of mercy. ANOTHER fistful of mercy