The quality of mercy!

"Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Mark chapter 11 and verse 48 ESV

There is no doubt that at the heart of all things genuinely Christian- the way of true righteousness, there is this quality of mercy. So that in mercy God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ to show His mercy to a world in an utter state of rejection of Him. He offered Himself up. So that the Christian faith is of what He has done for us and not the other way round.  Our adoption by Him into His family with all the certainty and other benefits that brings depends then solely on His having come into the world as a child, His work on the Cross and His resurrection from the dead and not on what we can do for Him.

That quality of mercy truly understood and adopted brings change and without which there has not been any change! As it is this quality of mercy that rings such a change, it unites all those who have accepted such terms of peace for they then each have a faith of equal status with everyone else's who likewise have accepted His terms of peace.

This incident in this story in the Gospel of Mark is part and parcel of telling us just this. It is about a blind man Bartimaeus whom Jesus heals. But in these words of his we see such a message revealed,

"Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Mark chapter 11 and verse 48 ESV

Jesus stopped and called him.

God's merciful call to a call for mercy!

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