L amentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 Today we read of mercy and the promise of life. So, you bunch of “ worthless slaves ,” tell me what mercy is, anyway? It’s not a word that we tend to use very often. In fact, a search in Google Books reveals that it was highly used in the 1800s and hit an all-time low in the 1980s. It seems to be coming back a little bit, at least in published literature, but what does Mercy actually mean? [Answers given from members include helping, compassion, stopping a punishment.] Those are good answers. It probably meant all of those things in the past, but I imagine the concept of mercy is applied a little differently in today’s court system than in the 1800s. I think the simplest form of mercy that we can all appreciate is when someone makes the bad stuff stop. When we suffer a loss, or when we just plain suffer, our souls cry out, “Mercy!” A few years ago I was in a place of deep suffering. My father-in-law had die...
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