- Psalms 6
Abraham’s nephew (Lot) who joined him in his walk with God and later separated from Abraham was taken into captivity by the four kings who won over five other kings in battle, as recorded in Genesis 14, but Abraham on getting this information went after them to rescue Lot. Normally, because of the manner in which Abraham and Lot separated, one would have thought he shouldn’t have rescued Lot but out of the abundance of his merciful heart, he quickly ran after them and rescued Lot his nephew. Abraham on returning from the rescue mission branched over to see Melchizedek, king of Salem and gave him a tithe of all as a way of thanking God for the victory granted him, I guess! God in Chapter 15 promised to give Abraham countless number of descendants like the stars and went ahead to make a covenant with him saying: To your descendants I have given this land in Verses 18-21. Sarah, Abraham’s wife, in chapter 16, talked him into going in to her maid to obtain children by her and Abraham heeded the voice of Sarai and Sarai’s maid Hagar, eventually bore Abram a son called Ishmael.
Are you in distress of any kind? Are you weak and lonely? Greatly troubled? Are you in grief? You can always rely on God’s mercies to overcome. Cry out to God to show you His mercy and save you from your trouble, read Psalms 6. God’s mercies endure forever!
Also in Matthew, the passage for our today’s reading, we are to draw from God’s mercies to love our enemies, bless those who curse us, do good to those who hate us and pray for our enemies because, it can only take the mercy of God to do all these. In Matthew 6:1-24, among the prayer model Jesus taught His Disciples had to hinge on having mercy on others who have sinned against us, so that our Heavenly Father, will equally have mercy on us when we ask Him for mercy. So, this is reciprocal.
PRAYER:
If you believe what the above passages have taught us, say this prayer sincerely from your heart;
LORD JESUS CHRIST; give me the grace to always have mercy on those who have wronged me and also to take them back as you have instructed me in your word, Amen.
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