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Today's devotion made a really weird but relevant analogy. Sharks are practically harmless...until they smell blood. Once they do, they all attack and sometimes its called a "feeding frenzy." Sometimes, that feeding frenzy is comparable to church. When one is hurt, do we all comfort them and show them mercy, or do we attack them and point out their flaws?
A lot of people say, and it's evident, they're not comfortable sharing things in church. This is surprising as church should be the one place where people aren't judged, ridiculed or judged based on their lives. Unfortunately, that feeding frenzy happens in church too, and we need to show mercy. We should be offering encouragement and building them up, not down.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." [Matthew 5:7]
Mercy is not getting what we deserve. God has shown us mercy, and therefore, we need to show mercy too. We deserve eternal punishment, but because of the cross, we don't have an eternity away from God.
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We can stop showing mercy to others, when Christ stops showing mercy to us.
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