The Eleventh Gift of Christmas - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
“Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.” Matthew 5:7 NKJV
On the eleventh day of the season of Christmas of 2020, my small group started on the study of the Gospel of Mark. The good news of Christmas is that Jesus came as the Prince of Peace to bring joy to the world that is suffering from sin and evil. Through repentance we prepare our hearts to make room to receive our Servant King. The message of John the Baptist is to clear the path, stony and thorny soils of our hearts through repentance and turn to God to be forgiven so that our hearts will be fertile soil for the seed of God’s love.
The wonder of God’s grace is that goodness and mercy will follow us when we follow Jesus as our Shepherd of Love. As our lives are filled with the goodness and mercy of God, we become the channels of God’s mercy and grace to others. We read in Mark 1:15:
“The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near. Change the way you think and act, and believe the Good News.” Mark 1:15 GW
Indeed, the time has come for us to change the way we read and respond to the bible. We need to learn to hear God’s voice in the bible so that we can follow Jesus as our Shepherd of Love with the Holy Spirit leading us day by day. As we meditate on the bible to renew our minds and change our hearts, we will be transformed to live as a forgiven and forgiving people who are living in God’s presence each day. Then we will shine like bright stars in our dark world of sin.
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