Note on Sunday; (Seek mercy and your life is with a meaning)




Many times when people praise my efforts having succeeded at something, same thing others had ventured into but totally unable to birth a reasonable level of success from, I find it so hard to admit it as my own making. The God-factor I just cannot take away from my dealings.

Working hard and gunning for success are mere effort that is needed by God to make a successful wish to come to fruition. Just like it is said that; “heaven helps those who helps themselves”.

Mercy actually takes over from where human effort stops.

But the crux of the matter as rightly put in; Romans 9;16- “So then not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth, but of God that showed mercy”

This means that it is insane to attribute success to just sheer hard work, there’s always a God factor. So this is to note that, it remains pertinent however and as Children of God to always seek mercy in all we do alongside physically working towards it.

James 2; 13 says- “Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment”

Mercy brings about unmerited favor, shine, success, breakthrough etc. But it only comes to play in the lives of those who are under the grace to excel. Not just because they merited it, neither for their good deeds too, but because God has rightly said in Romans 9; 15-16;

“15-Or he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on who I will have mercy, and I will compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16-so then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showed mercy.
           
The efforts of David at catapulting Saul was indeed ‘exaggerated’ by God, to make it look like the prowess of the former killed Goliath. This geared the popularity of David over Israel, so much he later ruled the land.


Mercy makes you successfully do what others might have failed in. It is the reason why you seem to be at the right place at the right time. It makes you reap what you earnestly do not deserve. Mercy makes seeming difficult situations becomes easy. One who obtains mercy enjoys sorrowful heavy weights being lifted off him. Mercy makes you take awards in competitions where others performed better than you did.

 Hard work asides, the fact remains that not every human gets to be rewarded in life. Reiterating the fact that mercy only complements hard work that existed prior.

To seek mercy first of all is to remain humble and to ceaselessly pray to God for it, while working very hard too. But as soon as you become Mercified, take glory not in thy own understanding, but give honor to whom honor is due.

And that honorable one is God.

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