Blessed are the Merciful

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)

Begin today with the Ark of the Covenant [IMAGE: https://openclipart.org/detail/334317/ark-of-the-covenant]

What’s more important, a box or its contents?

“Good is the essential constituent of order, and all aspects of it are forms of mercy. Truth is the secondary constituent of order, …. Divine Good adjudges all people to heaven, but Divine Truth condemns them all to hell. Consequently if the Lord’s mercy, which is the very nature of Good, were not eternal, all people – however many these may be – would be condemned. …” (Heavenly Secrets, paragraph 2258, section 2)

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy”

Reflects the law of spiritual attraction:

* “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” (Matthew 6:14)

* “Judge not, that you be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1)

* “Freely you have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:8)

WHAT IS “MERCY”?

When we ask for mercy – we are acknowledging our faults and evils, asking someone to overlook them.

Mercy is UNDESERVED. 

“… the reason the evil are condemned to hell is not that Divine Good is separated from Divine Truth, but that man separates himself from Divine Good; for the Lord in no way sends anyone down to hell, but man sends himself down, as stated frequently already.” (Heavenly Secrets, paragraph 2258, section 2)

“… It is a person who, in rejecting good, condemns himself.  As a person has fled habitually from good during his lifetime, so in the next life he flees from it, and therefore from heaven and the Lord.” (Heavenly Secrets, paragraph 2335, section 3)

Recorded on Sunday 7 July 2024