What is Mercy?
Mercy is kindness shown towards someone whom you have the right or power to punish.
Mercy is also kindness, that makes you to forgive someone.
In the Bible, God’s mercy means His COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS, UNDERSTANDING, and KINDNESS towards people.
His mercy is also about HEALING and COMFORTING us in times of illness and tribulations.
God the Father showed mercy on us when he sacrificed his Son, Christ Jesus, on the Cross to pay the price for our sins.
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.” — Psalm 51:1 .
Jesus showed MERCY by choosing to LOVE rather than CONDEMN.
There is MERCY towards the BODY and MERCY towards the SOUL.
There are seven acts of mercy which concern the body (The Corporal Works of Mercy) and seven which is relevant to the soul (The Spiritual Works of Mercy).
Corporal Works of Mercy
The Corporal Works of Mercy are those kind deeds, by which we help others with their material and physical needs.
Jesus gives a list of mercies that we should do to our fellow human beings so that we are blessed and can enter the Kingdom of God.
In a nutshell…the physical acts of mercy are:
1 Feed the Hungry
2 Give drink to the thirsty 3 Clothe the naked
4 Shelter the homeless
5 Comfort the imprisoned
6 Visit the sick.
7 Bury the dead
The Bible says, “If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.Isaiah 58:10
Spiritual Works of Mercy
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are acts of compassion, by which we help our neighbors with their emotional and spiritual needs.
The works include:
- To instruct the ignorant. Mathew 16:15
- To counsel the doubtful. John 14:5-14
- To admonish the sinners. Luke 17:3
- To bear patiently those who wrong us. Luke 6: 27-28
- To forgive offenses. Matthew 6:12
- To comfort the afflicted.Matthew11:28
- To pray for the living and the dead. John 17:24
More Quotes From The Bible About God's Mercy
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Psalm 145:8-9.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. Psalm 25:6-7
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Luke 6 :36-37
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead .1 Peter 1:3
Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:13
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6
We reap what we sow. When we show mercy to others, our Heavenly Father will show mercy on us!
Our Lord says “ Blessed are those who show mercy through forgiveness, kindness, and compassion, for they will receive mercy.”
