Summary

Because God is wholly righteous, our unrighteousness is very apparent.

God’s righteousness demands that His wrath come against all sin bringing eternal judgment to those who are not in Christ.

We must be merciful as our Heavenly Father is merciful.

• Memory Verses Luke 6:35-36

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

• Honoring God’s Righteousness

Read Revelation 14:17-18:4 aloud. Then write out a prayer in your spiritual journal praising Him. Praise God for His righteousness and that He is going to judge all sin. If you note a difficulty doing this, you need to first confess your blindness to God’s majestic ways and seek forgiveness. Do this each day this week until it becomes natural.

• Monitoring our Mercifulness

When relationships get tense, check out your level of mercy. Most likely you have been withholding mercy. When a person withholds mercy, then God shuts off His grace to his life. As a person develops extra patience and kindness, his own relationships get much better. Examine your relationships to see if you have withheld mercy. Remember that mercy does not demand that another first take action such as in asking for apology.

• Pray for the lost

In response to God’s mercy in your own life, ask God to give you a people group who are lost in their sins to pray for. It might be a home, street, city or nation. Journal His training of you to pray for this people group. Persist in prayer. It is a way you can bring more mercy into this world that deserves so much judgment.

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