Lent 2. February 22nd Therefore be merciful

(C)Br. Luke Efo 2010

Scripture: Luke 6: 36-38

³⁶  “Therefore be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful.
³⁷  Don’t judge,
and you won’t be judged.
Don’t condemn,
and you won’t be condemned.
Set free,
and you will be set free.
³⁸  “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
Reflection:

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful”. When we want some rule, or our own sense of justice, to be applied, then mercy will not be seen or even considered. I’m sure we can all cite examples where mercy was viewed as unimportant when some dogma or doctrine was being defended or proposed. The impact this dogma/doctrine would have on human lives and relationships, was not considered, it did not matter than we were not being merciful?  Perhaps this is because we like to focus on the negative, on the bad, on the sensational, on the error, or failures of others. We don’t concern ourselves with what measure we may get, we just want to limit the measure given to the others. Notice anything wrong with that approach?
Your thoughts: