Shall Receive Mercy

Matthew 5:7 ESV 

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

We do not receive the mercy of God by being merciful. We can do nothing to earn salvation from God. It is the fruit of the Spirit who begins to work in our lives to transform our nature into His. This is something we seek in our thirst for the righteousness of Christ. Having received the mercy and grace of Jesus, we are to live in the mercy and grace of His life. True mercy comes from above. 

We can love because we are loved by Him. 

We can forgive because we are forgiven by Him. 

We can be merciful because we have received mercy from Him. We can be compassionate with others because He is compassionate with us. 

We are to do unto others as we want done for ourselves. Jesus shows the way. 

We are imperfect in all things spiritual because we are made of the clay of the natural man. There is a transformation underway that begins when we are made alive in Christ. He enters our life and we begin to surrender that life to Him. 

In the end we will be like Him, spiritually and bodily.