The present-day mentality, more so than perhaps the people of the past, seems to be so opposed to mercy. In fact, it tends to be excluded from life all together and even be removed from the human heart that little thing people think of as mercy.
The word and concept of "mercy" seems to cause everyone an uneasy feeling, thanks to the enormous development of science and technology never before known in history, it has become the master of the earth and has subdued and dominated it. This dominaion over the earth seems to leave no room for mercy.
With all the things which are going on today around the world and in the situation of the world today, many groups guided by their lively sense of faith are turning almost spontaneously to the mercy of a god. They are certainly being moved to do this because of their situations.
We see the presence of love in the world, but don't always present it in ourselves. We are looking out for ourselves and as a friend once said to me, "I am looking out for me and my own."
Isn't everyone our own?
Or are other people a different species?
Our lifestyles and actions are revealed in the way we love each other, an effective love, a love that addresses itself to man and embraces everything that makes up humanity. This love makes itself is particularly noticed in contact with human suffering, injustice, and poverty. Being in contact with the whole human condition which in various ways manifests man's limitation and fraility, both physical and moral. It is precisely the mode and sphere in which love manifests itself in that language called "mercy."
The truth is not just in the subject of teaching. It is the reality made present to us by so many others and so little in ourselves. We seem to condemn and not forgive others. We just don't seem to show mercy any more.
The greatest mercy of all is seeing others give their lives for people they don't even know and in places they don't really want to be.
No human sin can erase mercy or prevent us from unleashing all our triumphant human power, if we only call upon each other to show mercy more often.
Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love we have for each other.
About Me
- Cornelison
- Ferris, Texas, United States
- I began writing for my children when they were very young, bedtime stories, as most parents will do to spend the quality time which none of us ever seem to really have. As a pastor of a medium sized church in West Virginia, I was asked to write editorials for the local newspaper. These editorials became popular, so popular other newspapers began calling and requesting to publish my editorials. When all was said and done, 14 newspapers were carrying my editorials each week. I became a sports editor for the local newspaper and began to cover a multitude of sports, involving the community in the pages I wrote and increasing the circualtion from 4000 papers and week to over 20,000 a week. After a family tragedy, I left pastoring and writing for a few years and the church organization relocated me to troubled churches aroung the world to assist in redeveloping them. I am currently at one in Texas, where the task almost seems insurmountable, but this is what I do now. Writing never left me. And I still wake up in the middle of the night with stories and ideas I want to share.
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