Going to sound strange but I think we should be praying for mercy for our enemies...
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God will win and His might is beyond what we can imagine. Those that are the enemy of God will suffer enormous loss. Pray for God to have mercy on even those that are against Him.
Remember we were all against Him before He came looking for us and found us.
Mercy, grace, and love are given freely, not conditionally, to all people by God. We have the ability to reject or accept these attributes of God.
Acceptance=Salvation (forgivess of our sins).
Rejection=Condemnation (eternal death).
We can emulate God by showing grace, mercy and love UNCONDITIONALLY to those that persecute or sin against us. Whether or not a person repents only affects their eternal relationship with. God...it really doesn't affect our ability to demonstrate these attributes to those who we would consider enemies. "For by grace are YOU saved, through faith, not of your own, it is a GIFT from God that no man should boast". After all, when someone sins against us, it is really sinning against God...the same thing we are all guilty of. Forgivess is ours to freely give to others and is not dependent on a person's repentence. When we understand that it is extremely freeing because we can only do that because we know Christ and the grace, mercy, love and forgiveness that has set us free.
Also, none of the above negates justice. Edit: It is hard to accept that God loves all mankind equally but "For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are none righteous, NO NOT ONE." God loves the sinner but HATES the sin, as we should.(it's hard or sure).
Beautifully typed. Thank you Anon. WWG1WGA.
Mercy is not given freely! It is given to those who have a contrite heart. Read the Bible again. There’s no blanket mercy for everybody. It’s very excepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that mercy is given.
The point is whether or not it is accepted by us though our free will choice...the giving of mercy is like a river that flows...you can take a drink from the river but nothing can stop the flow (well maybe beavers). I have read the Bible though several times and attended a Christian College so I am not totally inept. This speaks to the greatness of God and has nothing to do with the failures of man.
Yes but to take a drink of the river of mercy, you have to know Jesus. You have to know God. No one‘s going to be looking for a Mercy River on their own will. They have to be shown Jesus Christ, they have to be exposed and witness to. It is when they except Christ, that they are able to even drink from that river.
I am not disagreeing with the fact that we should be praying for our enemies, but having mercy on evil, is not who God is in particular. Once we except Jesus Christ, except our failures, except our sin, and ask for forgiveness. That’s where we arrive at the mercy seat. Also I’m not gonna go back and fix all the different words that Siri changes like accept!
Even David had to fight the evil in his life. He didn’t show mercy to Goliath! He picked up five smooth stones, and use them to destroy his enemy, and thus saving the Israelites!
However; I do pray for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Along with others, but in the meantime… The wages of sin is death. Not mercy. Until these people Accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they will not be visiting the mercy seat!
That is their choice, buy free will, their choice alone!
Like I said grace, mercy, love and forgiveness does not negate justice. Yes, we must hear the Word and then choose to believe the Word...that is our part. If I extend my hand with a gift for you, you have the choice to accept or reject. It does not affect the fact that I am offering you a gift and so it is with God.
What seperates us from God is sin and Jesus became the lamb who was sacrificed for us, who took our sin as His own and paid the penalty for us. That is grace...giving us something we don't deserve or unmerited favor. God's mercy allows God to forgive us though the perfect blood sacrifice of His son.. .He is not giving us what we deserve according to His perfect justice...death. So because of His love and mercy He provides grace, becoming sin for us...available to all freely and equally...the outstretched hand with a gift.
Remember we are talking about the perfect love, grace and mercy of God, which knows no bounds. Forgiveness is also freely given UPON accepting God's gift. Don't forget that in accepting Christ as our personal Savior only means that God counts us as sinless or righteous because of the blood of the lamb, which became sin for us. "We love Him because He first loved us" The focus is totally on the nature of God, who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.