So this is the second blog entry that flirts with the personal life. I was trying to avoid that with this blog but oh well.
For the past few weeks I've been studying the friendship of Jonathan and David in the Bible. I am learning a lot. But I am not ready to share what I've learn....but hang with me for a second.
Last week, at church we talked a little bit about mercy. Webster's defines mercy as: compassion or forbearance shown especially to an offender or to one subject to one's power. So this week I decided to show mercy. NOT AN EASY TASK. There were a few moments, I had to stop and take a moment to take myself out of the situation and then proceed. Dude seriously, how did Jesus turn the other cheek so many times? No for real.....
I had learned to pick my battles, but this week was one of those weeks where, wow oh wow, Lord have mercy.
Tonight, I really started to wonder how do you show compassion to someone who can't even see the good in people or themselves? How do you show compassion to someone who can't appreciate your friendship in the good and the bad? How do you continue to show compassion to someone who is always looking for what they can get out of you? I find myself, throwing my hands up and not knowing any more. But I know I don't want to be the one who points out the speck in everyone's eye but ignoring the plank in my eye (See Matthew 7:3-5).
To show mercy, isn't easy. For real, you just want to slap the person into reality, or walk away from it all. I realized it takes mercy to love someone, who's emotionally dead, back to life. It takes mercy to have someones back who can't appreciate the good and harps on the bad. It takes mercy to work at it even when the other person gives up. So dude, how did Jesus turn the other cheek? He showed mercy..... Christ follower or not, the question still remains, are you showing mercy?
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