Mercy

James 2:8-13

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said "Do not murder," If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For the judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.

If we want God to show us mercy on the day he judges us, we better show mercy to everybody now. James clearly says that mercy will not be shown to those who do not show mercy. If we show certain people mercy but not everybody, James says that we are sinning.

If we truely understand God's mercy toward us we will in turn show mercy to everyone. If we truely understand what Christ did for us we will humble ourselves and show mercy toward everyone. We can't just show mercy to the people we like or the people who deserve it, we must show mercy to our enemies and to people who don't neccesarly deserve it. We must show mercy to the people who don't deserve it, because we don't derserve the mercy that God has shown us.

Let us not judge one another but show mercy. For if we judge one another and do not show mercy, we will be judged and shown no mercy.