Episode 8 – The BE-Attitudes: Living Your Best Life Part 6: Experience The Miracles Of Mercy

Kimberly Faith: Welcome to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. We seek to present God’s timeless truth through the lens of his remarkable love. Welcome to Truth in Love, and we are on podcast 8. Wow. I can’t even believe this.

And, this is the continuation of the beatitudes series on living your best life, and this is part 6, which we are calling the Miracles of Mercy. And we have brought in the queen of mercy, for this podcast, my lovely mother, Lynn McLarty. Good morning, mom. 

Lynn McLarty: Good morning. 

Kimberly Faith: And, of course, we always welcome back dad who is just a pillar of wisdom in our family and strength.

And so we’re going to jump right into this podcast. The last podcast, we talked about hungering and thirsting after righteousness or the presence of God. And we kind of left off with this question, and that is, do we know what the blessings of mercy look like? And I confessed that I did not have a clue what this beatitude meant. And this is, of course, Matthew chapter 5 verse 7 where Jesus says, blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.

But through studying this podcast, I’m amazed at the wisdom of what Jesus is teaching us about the value of mercy and how it grows in awareness of this cycle of mercy that he offers us. Because of the mercy we’ve received and the mercy we’re able to give by basically having a heightened awareness of what this mercy looks like and the treasures it produces. And so we’ve called this podcast the Miracles of Mercy and experiencing the great miracles of mercy. So let’s just jump right in, and I really want mom’s input on this to tell us, you know, what do you think of when you read this beatitude or when you think about mercy?

Lynn McLarty: Well, I was thinking about this, when you asked me to speak on this. And I was thinking about how I have actually received so much mercy in my life. I go back to the podcast where we shared our testimony of salvation. And the family that led us to the Lord, and they had these 10 well behaved children, and I had 3 not so well behaved children.

Kimberly Faith: You can just say it, mom. We were wild.

Lynn McLarty: But, and what a light. As we would pass their farm, what a light they were. It was drawing us, and we didn’t really even know why. But, I’m just going to say that they actually told their children not to ever go down to where these hippies lived in the teepee.

They were warning their children. And I got to thinking about how God, through his mercy and love for me, drew us to their house by seeing their light, even though they didn’t really want to minister to us because  they were fearful of us. But how God, through his mercy, brought us to their front door, where I accepted Jesus as my savior. And, so when I think of mercy, I think about how much mercy I have received from God, that really, it was a miracle that we got saved, because this family was thinking we were a little scary.

And it made me think about how many people we might pass up in our lives, that maybe we think that they’re not worthy of our consideration. That we might think we’re about, you know, as Christians, sometimes we get a haughty attitude that we’re kind of, okay, now our life is on course, but we forget about how when our life wasn’t on course. And the direction our life could have gone, could have been, we could have been homeless people. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

Lynn McLarty: We could have been drug addicts. We could have taken our life. We could have been hopeless, feeling helpless and hopeless. And, so when I think of mercy, I think that we should never pass a person and think of them. Well, they might be rich. We might think about rich people. Well, they don’t need mercy.

Kimberly Faith: They’re not going to listen.

Lynn McLarty: They’re not going to listen. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right. 

Lynn McLarty: But really, whether you’re homeless or you’re living in a mansion, You need God’s mercy.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. That’s really good, mom. And I think oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to cut you off.

Lynn McLarty: No. That’s alright.

Kimberly Faith: I think that, you know, your point is so well taken and is exactly what Jesus is talking about here. In order to come to Christ for salvation, we learned this in the first beatitude. We have to be completely broken. We have to be completely bankrupt. We use the you know, the concept of bankruptcy.

We have to admit that we’re without any merit on our own and come to Jesus for salvation that way, and then we need to do life that way with him. And if we are not living in this miracle that we’re experiencing mercy every day, it’s not just the mercy we had received for salvation, but it’s all the things that are going right. It’s all the things that God has not allowed to go wrong. It  is that continued mercy. And, you know, so how do we keep ourselves in this with a strong realization that mercy is not a one off. It’s not we’ve arrived.

It’s a continual cycle. How do we keep that attitude of mercy? Dad, do you have any thoughts about that?

John McLarty: Well, I think we can get a perspective from Jesus. Mercy involves forgiveness. And I was just taken to this passage out of Matthew 18 when Peter came to Jesus and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? 7 times? Like, that would really be big of me.

And Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee until 7 times, but until 70 times 7. So Jesus wants to have abundant mercy and one evidence of that is forgiveness. Then he tells the story. This is how not to be merciful.  It’s a parable.  A king forgave a servant a great debt, tremendous debt.

And that’s what we were forgiven. When we obtained the mercy of God, we were forgiven the great debt, our sin against the almighty God. And then a servant of the servant came and wanted forgiveness for his debt. It was just a tiny debt. And the servant that was forgiven much wouldn’t forgive the servant a tiny debt.

Well, word got back to the king that this had happened. So the king calls the servant back and says, basically, I’m throwing you in jail until you pay all my debt back. 

Kimberly Faith: Justice is going to be

John McLarty: It was rough.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Yeah. 

John McLarty: You wouldn’t forgive your servant just a little bit, and I forgave you everything. So that’s the kind of impact. It’s a perspective of how much mercy we should have towards others, is how much mercy did God show us?

Kimberly Faith: Right. You know? And you kind of bring up the interplay between forgiveness and mercy, which are kind of sister attitudes. You know, forgiveness is a personal thing. I forgive you because I’ve been forgiven, and mercy is withholding the treatment that when you have the right to inflict it.

Lynn McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: You know, forgiveness is an individual thing that we do for ourselves. Mercy is something we do for somebody else. You know, that the servant in that parable, he could have forgiven the debt and then exercised mercy, which would be exacting repayment, right, which would have been done to him. And, you know, I think that when we show mercy to somebody else it’s even bigger than forgiveness because you can say I forgive this person, but then you maybe hold a grudge, which is not forgiveness.

Right? Or, you know, the example I always think about when I think of mercy is when I’m always reminded of God’s mercy to me when somebody comes into my office who’s been charged with a crime. They’re guilty. Right? They’re desperate for mercy, especially, you know, some clients come in and say, well, I really didn’t do that.

Well and then you find out later through getting the goods on them that they’d actually did it. And then they’re like, oh, I need mercy. Right? But they want that record erased. They want to minimize the collateral damage on their criminal record or their, you know, whatever.

And like you said, dad, God has completely erased our debt as far as the east is from the west. There’s that, we can’t even fathom that distance. But when we have a situation like, if I have a client who owes me money, you know, and the Lord lays on my heart, that person needs that money more than you do. To have mercy is to affect me materially. It’s something I have to decide that’s going to take something away from me.

You know? And I say, okay. I’m writing this debt off because god laid it on my heart to do this. And the only way I really can do that with a complete free heart is to be acknowledging the mercy I’ve received from Christ.

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: It’s a cycle. And when we talk about mercy, the miracle of mercy, it’s a cycle. We’re receiving so much that we have to give it away. Does that make sense?

John McLarty:  Yes, In the world, forgiveness could just be, oh, you owe me so much money. You can never pay me, so I forgive you. But I’m going to have a bad attitude towards you for the rest of our days.

That’s forgiveness in a sense, but not merciful forgiveness. 

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty:  God not only forgave us for our sins, he loves us.

Kimberly Faith:  Right. 

John McLarty: He wants that personal relationship. He doesn’t hold that against us.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: And that’s where mercy comes in. It’s forgiveness with a loving attitude.

Kimberly Faith: Well  and it’s interesting because in the verses you were quoting about the servant who didn’t forgive in Matthew chapter 18, it said that the king said, should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you? And then it says his master delivered him to his torturers. And I think about that.  To live with unforgiveness or be unmerciful is to be delivered to the torture of living after the flesh, which is compared in, you know, in Galatians where the fruits of the spirit are compared with the works of the flesh. The, you know, the wrath, the anger, the backbiting, all that torture that we necessarily enter into is a terrible place to live, and we’re out of the cycle of mercy.

Lynn McLarty: Yes. I was thinking about there’s, blessings in that mercy and forgiveness. When you actually forgive somebody, what Kim was saying is that when God forgives us, our sins are as far away from the east as from the west. Well, sometimes we kind of live in that area of our life, forgetting the great mercy that God gave us, and we’re unable to experience the blessings of God because we’re thinking we’re above another person.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

Lynn McLarty: And, but just an experience I had of forgiveness, forgiving somebody for something that they were holding a grudge against me, and I just forgave them. And I wasn’t receiving their forgiveness back, but the Lord just showed me just to reach out and be kind and

Kimberly Faith: And that was the mercy

Lynn McLarty: And that was mercy. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

Lynn McLarty: And it took several years, but I have received such blessings in that relationship now. They have finally, maybe just forgiven me for the wrong they thought I did to them.

But I’m actually receiving blessings because the relationship is back. I’m getting to encourage them and they encourage me, and there’s a lot of blessings in actual true forgiveness and true mercy that you share with other people.

Kimberly Faith: It’s like forgiveness is the act of rectifying yourself to God and to them. Mercy is the is the act of acting like it never happened

Lynn McLarty: Yes. 

Kimberly Faith: Of doing things that show that you are not holding that grudge. You’re acting in ways that they don’t deserve and blessing them in ways that they don’t deserve because God is blessing you in ways you don’t deserve.

Lynn McLarty: We don’t deserve very much. I’m telling you.

John McLarty: So true forgiveness should restore and make loving attitudes flourish.

Lynn McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: Like taking the servant, the parable to servant. You know? When once he had been forgiven and restored to good graces of his master because the 1,000,000,000 have been, you know, pardoned, basically, He could have made the decision. You know, this guy owes me $10, and I’m just going to forgive him for that debt.

My mercy is going to be demonstrated, hey, man. Come have dinner with me tonight.

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: You know? And the example you gave us is good mom, and it’s what I think we have to do in order to live in this cycle of mercy is that we have to be constantly thanking God for all the blessings that he has given us, his blessings of mercy to us. Because once you start counting those blessings of mercy, you want to give them away. You can’t keep them to yourself. And that’s when you like, you used the example of a rich man.

You know? Well, that person probably won’t listen. Right? I’ll never forget a story. I had a guy come to my office.

He’s very, very wealthy. And he had just a pretty minimal legal problem. You know? But he was concerned about it. And the whole time he was talking to me, I just, the holy spirit was like, you need to talk to him about his soul.

And he was intimidating. It was intimidating. You know? It’s like, oh, I really want him as a client. I don’t really want to, you know, do the religious thing, and he might not want to be, you know, blah blah blah.

Right? You know, you think. And I just,  but the holy spirit wouldn’t shut up. So I was like, okay. I was so I don’t remember what I asked him, but it was a pretty innocuous question about, you know, hey.

Tell me what makes you happy or something like that. You know, what gives you joy? And so we had the whole discussion about the, you know, the joy that comes from God. And it was an amazing discussion. And, you know, at the end of the discussion, he made the comment.

He said, you know, I really didn’t expect to hear about Jesus in a lawyer’s office. He said, but I’m so grateful. 

Lynn McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: And it was a complete , you know, I was just, how you just shake your head after something happened to you. God, I’m sorry. I doubted you. You know? But he was very hard for me to approach because of my predisposed notion about whether he deserved mercy, you know? And it was because we have these prejudgments we make on people because we forget how much mercy. I wasn’t thinking, what if he is not born again?

What if I’m the only person he ever meets that knows Jesus? I wasn’t thinking about the mercy I’d received. I was thinking about, you know, my financial issues. Right? And when we start living in this,  well, I call it the miracle of mercy because it’s a cycle. We’re so fully aware of the mercy, the great vast ocean of mercy we’ve received from God that we want to  bless even our enemies. And it opens up all those opportunities like you were talking about. To bless our enemies. When I say, enemies. I’m not saying, you know, that we’re going to bless, you know, somebody who comes over and tries to bomb our house.

I’m saying the people that hold themselves out as holding grudges, unforgiveness, maybe the neighbor doesn’t like our dog or whatever. Right?

Lynn McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: So it’s really in this beatitude, I feel like it’s opened up, an entirely different dimension of attitude for me. And this was so amazing about this beatitude study. It’s like, God says, okay. There are these multifaceted attitudes you should be developing, you know, that are going to open up the blessings of heaven to you. And one of them is mercy.

You need to be in the cycle of mercy, Kim. It doesn’t matter who the person is. You need to be thinking about, is there some mercy that you can share with this person because you’ve got it overflowing?

John McLarty: You know, that cycle of mercy, I’m thinking it’s an everyday thing.

Lynn McLarty:  Right. 

John McLarty: And if we’re aware of God’s mercy toward us and exercise that toward others, it helps us through every day. We just went to a conference, and you’re around a lot of people.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: And I’m just, I’ve noticed, people might do things inadvertently. Maybe they walked by you or, you know, you were talking to them and someone else got their attention. And we have these little offenses every day.

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: And I just noticed myself always thinking to just shake that off.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: This person needs your Christian witness. You don’t need to have a bad attitude. And it’s just our pride, it’s so dominant in our life.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: But that cycle of mercy, we can just go like, this person still needs Jesus. Like, somebody offended you. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: And it was not a legitimate offense, or sometimes it wasn’t even intentional. It’s just an inadvertent event or remark.

Kimberly Faith: Or a false accusation.

John McLarty: But this frees us up to just have the love of Christ.

Kimberly Faith: Right. It’s like mercy is like the refining fire that keeps the dross from building up in our life.

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: You know? And what’s really interesting is what the Bible says about mercy even affecting the next generation. In Psalms 103, 17, and 18, it says, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children’s children to such as keep his covenant and to those who remember his commandments to do them. You know, the last podcast was about seeking his righteousness first, seeking first his righteousness and everything else will be added unto us. I think when we understand just the vastness of God’s mercy towards us, then we have so much we can give away that, like you said, dad, if somebody, you know, shifts gears and and walks away from us in the middle of the conversation because someone more  important come along, it’s never about us.

It’s like, oh, you know what? It’s okay. I can go on to the next person I can minister to. I can go on and visit other people

John McLarty: And I’m not going to hold a bad attitude to that person

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: And, like, you know, ignore them next time they come, you know?

Kimberly Faith: You can’t because you don’t, because your mindset isn’t about you. It’s about all the mercy you’ve received and the grace you’ve received from God.

Lynn McLarty: Yeah. I was thinking too, those that fear God and I was thinking, I had this picture in my mind of taking a candle and going into places that you fear and let your light shine. Like, you might fear like Kim did talking to this rich guy. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

Lynn McLarty: Or we might fear going and talking to a homeless person. But if we let our light shine, it’s showing mercy to them because they’re seeing that. They’re being drawn to that light.

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

Lynn McLarty: And that’s the merciful thing we can do is have them drawn to Jesus.

Kimberly Faith:  Right.

Lynn McLarty: Not to us, but we’re the instrument God uses to draw them to Jesus.

John McLarty: Amazing. That’s actually liberating.

Lynn McLarty: Yeah.

Kimberly Faith:  It is. Yes.

John McLarty: In our behavior. 

Lynn McLarty: Yeah. 

John McLarty: Because we just

Lynn McLarty: We don’t have to fear.

John McLarty: Right, We don’t have to fear.

Kimberly Faith: Mercy is liberating. And mercy is a result of God’s love, and God’s love is perfect, and it casts out fear.

Lynn McLarty: Yeah.

Kimberly Faith: So when the Bible tells us to fear God, it’s not to be afraid of God, but rather to fear the loss of our sense of his presence. You know? We would rather be in God’s presence than to be anywhere else. And it is unrighteousness that takes us from his presence or the sense of his presence. I like to say the sense of his presence because God is if we’re born again, he’s always present.

Lynn McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: But we don’t always sense his presence. Like, it’s kind of like, you know, my kids are always my kids, but they may not sense my presence if when they were you know, when one of my kids was a teenager and and she was doing some things behind my back, and I was upset with her, and she had to be, you know, put in her room. Well she knew I was mad at her. She was not feeling the love of my presence at the moment, whether she was feeling the wrath of my presence. And, nobody wants to live that way.

Right? We want to live in the peace and the love that God gives us. And so when we’re striving to do that by living and loving him with all of our heart, soul, and mind, we are also becoming very aware of the great mercy that he gives us. I think that with this beatitude, Jesus is giving us this opportunity to become awakened to mercy, to become aware that we can live in this cycle of receiving, being aware of how much we’ve received and therefore able to give. 

Lynn McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: Does that make sense? 

John McLarty:  Yes. 

Kimberly Faith: And then we’re blessed because we’re not burdened by giving away mercy. We’re not burdened by having mercy towards our fellow man, which is also not forgiving. Right?

Lynn McLarty: When we empty our cup, God continues to fill it.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Or shows us how full it already is.

Lynn McLarty: Yes. So he just, we pour mercy out. He’s pouring mercy in.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right. And then going back to the parable that dad read, you know, that servant, that wicked servant, at the moment his master said, I am  forgiving you this debt. His debt was wiped away, and he had the opportunity to experience mercy. But it’s interesting that the parable doesn’t say the master unforgave his debt.

Now he just let him experience what it feels like to live with debt. He let him experience what he missed out by failing to be merciful. 

Lynn McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: And that’s what we do when we hold grudges, when we insist on exacting debts from people, whatever that looks like. You know?

Well, he didn’t invite me over for lunch, and I invited him to lunch. So, you know, I’m done. Right? Then we miss out, and we are living in the tortured existence of no blessings from God 

John McLarty: Right. 

Kimberly Faith: That we could have been capturing.

John McLarty: And I think there’s a truth there and we’ve received mercy that can never be taken back because we’re eternally saved.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty:  So we receive mercy from God. But then as Christians, I think if we’re unmerciful, our life is just this bitter cycle of not in the mercy cycle. But if we’re forgiving, I think that puts us in a position where, of course, you know, trials and tribulations can always happen to us.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: But if we’re merciful towards others, God can pour out his mercy toward us in this life.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: Because we need his continued mercy. 

Kimberly Faith: Right. 

John McLarty: Salvation’s taken care of, but just, we also need peace in this life.

Kimberly Faith: Right. I think, I don’t know. In my personal experience, the more that I appreciate the mercy I know about, the more God awakens me to all the mercy I’m receiving that I don’t even know about.

John McLarty: Exactly.

Kimberly Faith: You know, like, I almost hit a deer the other day. And, you know, actually,  I came up on this back highway that, you know, there’s always deer, and there’s 2 little deer playing with a  tom turkey in the middle of the road. And I had to stop my vehicle so they could finish their little, you know, whatever they were doing and get out of the way. But I thought, lord, how many times have I traveled this road that you have prevented? Because I think I hold the record in the state of Missouri for the most amount, the highest number of deer killed in my vehicles.

I’m up to 10. And I think about it, but I was never injured in any of those, you know, not to say if I had been injured that God couldn’t have worked that for his good. He certainly could. But you start thinking about all the things that God didn’t allow to happen. Because I really think that when we become awakened to how much mercy we know about, then we also can think about, well, God has probably, there’s probably, like, at least half as much or even more that we don’t know about.

It’s kind of like when our kids were young. You know, they didn’t have a clue how they got the next meal. Right? They didn’t know all the behind the scenes that went into that. They just knew the meal was there.

And when their meal wasn’t there, they did know about that. Right? They were very aware of that. And as parents, we don’t set a 5 year old down and say, let me explain how much mercy you’re getting every day.

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: You know? But we hope when they get to be, you know, I was talking to my son yesterday. He was telling me about all those meals he was making with his new green egg grill and his, you know, just details. Right? And it just made my heart happy that he’s realized that he can serve other people with these very intricate meals.

But at 5 years old, he didn’t understand that. He just wanted, just, you know, a medium rare rib eye that was hopping over the hills still, but he didn’t know how it got there. But when we start growing up in our faith, and Jesus is saying, become aware of this mercy, Then we start giving it away because we realize how much we have. You know? And I think that’s when we really start getting to see the miracles.

We get to see miracles that are just like, wow, Lord. You just did something like what you described. This person who had held a grudge against you mom and or whatever. And you got to see miracles that would have never happened had you not understood mercy and started giving that in overt ways to this person.

John McLarty: And we see that in this life. You just gave the examples. How many times have you heard somebody, a new parent, all of a sudden have this new appreciation for their parents?

Kimberly Faith:  Right. 

John McLarty: They went, oh my goodness.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: My parents did all this for me that I’m doing for this little baby and I had no appreciation for them. Well, as we realize the depths and the lengths that God has shown us mercy

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: We can appreciate it and show that to others. And be thankful for it.

Kimberly Faith: It’s like God says, Jesus is saying, hey. You can experience mercy from both ends. You know, you can appreciate how much you’ve received. And then you can enjoy what I enjoy when I give it to you because it delights God to give us mercy because it reconciles us to him.

Lynn McLarty: Yeah.

Kimberly Faith:  And if we can delight in giving other people mercy when we,  instead of exacting justice when we have the right to, then we get the opportunity  to share what God has done for us. Right? It’s another opportunity to share the gospel.

You can be reconciled to God. You know? I, in talking about how our kids don’t really understand, and when we were children, we didn’t really understand just how much our parents did behind the scenes and how we kind of grow into that. I have a really great example that God allows us to participate in things, and we don’t really fully, when we don’t really fully understand the far reaching effects. And, you know, we may plant a seed here and not get to see it grow.

Right? But I think one of the benefits of mercy is that God sometimes allows us to see the full picture sometimes. And we’re doing this, you know, this, this study, and this is 2024. Well, back, I don’t know, 6, 7 years ago, God gave me a song called, Glass House. And it,  I hadn’t studied this beatitudes.

I didn’t know anything about, you know, really about mercy, like I’ve been studying it. But the lyrics now mean so much more to me after having studied this. And I didn’t even understand these lyrics, but now I kind of do. And when, and I just want to read some of the lyrics. 

It says, look through the window of your glasshouse.

Outside stand vacant eyes and broken hearts, created like you by Holy God. Oh, how very like her you are. So before you cast that first stone, remember the glass in your own home. In our glass house lives amazing grace, miracle of mercy. 

You know, this is so amazing to live in the miracle that we have received so much mercy.

It is a miracle. And we get to experience this thing called grace, which is an unmerited favor. Not just the receiving part, the best part of receiving it is giving it, really. You know, I was standing outside the other night watching a fireworks show that just kind of sprang up on my back deck. Right?

I was like, wow. Where’s this coming from? You know? And I was all by myself. And I was like, well, this is really pretty.

But how much better would it have been if I had somebody to enjoy it with, to give that view? You know? And that’s mercy. You know? God allows us to experience it, but how much better is it when we get to give it away or share it with somebody else?

Because that is really the miracle of the fruits of the spirit, really. We’re receiving so much that we rejoice to give away.  Love and joy and peace. Right? And so I don’t think, well and just kind of  like this  song: remember that wretched place you came from, all those sleepless nights and hopeless dreams, dying slowly, fearing the unknown, then blessed redemption filled your soul. Now in God’s mercy, we find no stones, only his heart which welcomes us home. In our glass house lives amazing grace, miracle, mercy.

I had no idea what that even meant, and God gave me that song. And I just love that Jesus says, guess what? Here’s an attitude. If you’ll develop an attitude of mercy because of all the mercy you have received, you’re going to  live in miracles that are going to blow your mind.

You know? And I don’t know. I don’t know if there’s any final thoughts on this, but this is a great awakening to to live in mercy.

Lynn McLarty: It’s such a blessing to see others receive that mercy. To watch the delight in their faces and the change that they go through by receiving a little mercy. We experienced that just recently. And I won’t get into it, but to see how God took this little flower that was kind of closed up, and then with a little bit of love and mercy, how that flower just opened up, and we got to experience that. So just being one of God’s children and seeing his mercy affect somebody else’s life is such a gift.

Kimberly Faith: And we get to experience what Jesus experiences with us. 

Lynn McLarty: Yes. Uh-huh. 

Kimberly Faith: Wow. That’s a miracle.

Lynn McLarty: It is.

Kimberly Faith:  It is such a miracle. And so we’re going to wrap  this beatitude up. And I’m just I’m really excited about the next beatitude because, it’s blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God, Matthew 5:8. And as you know, we’ve talked about how we are getting to experience a cycle of mercy, which is to see really a glimpse of what God sees and gets to experience when he gives us mercy. Right? 

Lynn McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith:  And what does it mean? How can we see God? I mean, don’t you want to  see God more?

Let’s just break this down. If God is the creator of everything we love, everything we enjoy, he’s the creator of everything good. Don’t you want to see more of the guy who created this all? You know?

Well, Jesus tells us how. And so, for next time, we’re going to leave this question on the table. Do you see the evidence of God all around you, and do you want to? This has been the Truth in Love podcast, and we are so glad that you joined us. We hope that you will join us in our next podcast.

Hallelujah. You have been listening to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. To discover more answers to the big questions in life, visit us at gofaithstrong.com. Hallelujah. You rescued me.