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Tuesday: Mercy
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Matt 5:7
It’s not only love that makes the world go round. Resentment is also prominent. In so many ways, the world is drowning in resentment. Everywhere I look, it seems that there’s someone who is bitter over something.
What is resentment? Why is this feeling so common in our lives? How do we move past it?
Soren Kierkegaard once defined resentment in this way: Resentment happens when we move from mercy to bitterness.
Mercy is to stay in relationship, to refuse to repay evil with evil, and then gradually let go of the bitterness and resentment, to forgive. And as I carry on with the journey, so do I move into a life of joy! Of freedom and happiness, because I am sharing in God’s life now!
To whom can you show mercy?
How can you share the mercy that you receive from God? God has forgiven the unforgivable in you. Can you not share this?
Grace:
Lord, give me the grace of freedom from resentment.
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Welcome! So why go on this journey? Lent invites me to face that which I’d rather avoid. For 40 days I go on a journey dedicated to isolation, prayer, and fasting. May this Lent journey be a confirmation of how God is always with me, give me the courage to go to places I would rather avoid, and let me experience his provision once more.
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