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The Hand of Mercy
My hands are busy. I am married to my high school sweetheart Martin and our home stays in a constant state of chaos as we try to raise our four-year-old daughter and twin two-year-old boys! In addition to that, I write songs, serve at my local church and travel all over the nation for events each year, almost always with our three kids in tow! I love my life, but I am very busy.
There is a story in Luke chapter 10 of two very busy ministers. You may have heard it called the story of the Good Samaritan, which would have been quite the oxymoron in their day. The Samaritan, the despised half-breed Jew, stopped to help this beaten and dying Hebrew, took time to bind up his wounds, spent money to put him up at an inn till he recovered. The message here is as plain and compelling to the original hearers as it is to you and me today.
Am I too busy to show mercy? Are my hands too full of my own good works, my own agenda, my religious activity, to see those hurting around me? Lord, open my eyes to the greater call to extend mercy, to live in light of the mercy you have so richly shown to me.
Can you think of two areas within your circle of life where there is an opportunity to be a good Samaritan? Take a step in the direction of mercy and see what God might do in and through your life.
My hands are busy. I am married to my high school sweetheart Martin and our home stays in a constant state of chaos as we try to raise our four-year-old daughter and twin two-year-old boys! In addition to that, I write songs, serve at my local church and travel all over the nation for events each year, almost always with our three kids in tow! I love my life, but I am very busy.
There is a story in Luke chapter 10 of two very busy ministers. You may have heard it called the story of the Good Samaritan, which would have been quite the oxymoron in their day. The Samaritan, the despised half-breed Jew, stopped to help this beaten and dying Hebrew, took time to bind up his wounds, spent money to put him up at an inn till he recovered. The message here is as plain and compelling to the original hearers as it is to you and me today.
Am I too busy to show mercy? Are my hands too full of my own good works, my own agenda, my religious activity, to see those hurting around me? Lord, open my eyes to the greater call to extend mercy, to live in light of the mercy you have so richly shown to me.
Can you think of two areas within your circle of life where there is an opportunity to be a good Samaritan? Take a step in the direction of mercy and see what God might do in and through your life.
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Laura Story believes that “Worship in its very core begins with surrender.” In this 7-Day devotional Laura unpacks what it means to live life with Open Hands. She says “Open Hands is something I’ve been learning on so many different levels. The crazier life gets, the more this idea of ‘open hands’ became the theme that God was teaching me.” In this devotional Laura Story shares her heart on the biblical application of living a life with Open Hands as expressed through the songs on her album “Open Hands”.
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