MERCY DIFFERENT THAN COMPASSION

MERCY DIFFERENT THAN SYMPATHY Dear One, Compassion, sympathy and empathy are wonderful attitudes, but mercy is better. You ask how is mercy different than compassion, sympathy and empathy. Compassion, sympathy and empathy are heartfelt emotions toward someone who has been injured physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. You are moved into one of those attitudes when you hear about, see or read about something that hurts another person. Mercy goes further. Mercy goes beyond those human emotions of heartfelt compassion and delivers forgiveness to a person who has injured you or a person who has broken civil or religious laws. Because of that forgiveness for the person, looking beyond the fleshy sins and seeing the spirit of the person, the real person, mercy delivers compassion for the lawbreaker even though he or she may not deserve it because of his or her obvious guilt. Mercy comes from Me and is always forgiving. Mercy blots out trespasses, sins, iniquities, misdeeds and mistakes and immediately restores the lawbreaker to favor and goodness because mercy is not affected by actions, only by the value that I give to My creations. In other words, mercy is nonjudgmental, never being a judge and jury which determines the guilt of another person. Mercy blots out the trespass and never refers to it because it has been erased . Be of the attitude of mercy because it reflects My mercy toward you, Your Merciful and Loving Father, Matthew 5:7; Exodus 25:21-22; Matthew 9:13; I Timothy 1;15-16.