"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
Matthew 5:7
Life seems unfair at times. You wonder why this or that is happening to you, while someone else seems to float through similar circumstances. Or you wonder why similar things produce different results. :) I'm sure that you can think of something that seems unfair in your own life. I think the tragedy of life is not that life isn't fair... it is that we think we want fairness. In the end, as illustrated by this scripture, things will indeed be fair. Whatever we offer to others we will be offered. Whatever we put into life is what we'll get out of it. If we've learned to be happy here, then we'll be happy there. All perfectly fair. I think that the fairness that we think we want is more like advantage. We want things to work out perfectly for us and the people we care about. We want to win when we are in competition with others. We don't want to have the things we dish out returned to us. Today, let's remember to be good to others, and to be merciful. That's the best way to ensure that we will receive mercy in return... and I don't know about you, but I could use some mercy. :)
Matthew 5:7
Life seems unfair at times. You wonder why this or that is happening to you, while someone else seems to float through similar circumstances. Or you wonder why similar things produce different results. :) I'm sure that you can think of something that seems unfair in your own life. I think the tragedy of life is not that life isn't fair... it is that we think we want fairness. In the end, as illustrated by this scripture, things will indeed be fair. Whatever we offer to others we will be offered. Whatever we put into life is what we'll get out of it. If we've learned to be happy here, then we'll be happy there. All perfectly fair. I think that the fairness that we think we want is more like advantage. We want things to work out perfectly for us and the people we care about. We want to win when we are in competition with others. We don't want to have the things we dish out returned to us. Today, let's remember to be good to others, and to be merciful. That's the best way to ensure that we will receive mercy in return... and I don't know about you, but I could use some mercy. :)
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