MERCY

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6.   Matthew 5:7  Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.   Exodus 34:6  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.   There is a word at the center of this Beatitude that Yeshua’s disciples would not have heard as a moral virtue — but as something deeply intimate. When the Hebrew mind spoke of mercy, it reached for rachamim, a word rooted in rechem — the womb. The hidden place where life is carried, protected, and loved before it can ever respond. So when Scripture declares that God is rachum — merciful — it is not describing cold pity from a distance. It is revealing the fierce, covenantal compassion of a God who carries His people, remembers His promises, and moves toward them even when they cannot move toward Him.

The Greek word Yeshua uses is eleemon — merciful, compassionate — but it carries the full weight of the Hebrew Scriptures behind it. In the Septuagint, eleos translates both rachamim and chesed. Rachamim speaks of womb-tenderness — the deep, instinctive compassion of God. Chesed speaks of covenant  loving kindness — loyal love bound not by feeling alone, but by faithfulness. Together they reveal the shape of the mercy Yeshua is blessing: not sentiment, not shallow tolerance, but love with covenant backbone — tenderness that refuses cruelty, faithfulness that refuses to abandon, compassion that moves toward the broken and the undeserving with the heart of God.

When ADONAI passed before Moses in Exodus 34, He began His own self-disclosure there: rachum v’chanun — merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in chesed. Mercy is not a minor attribute. It is woven into how He reveals Himself. Micah pressed it to its covenant conclusion: “Do justice, love mercy (chesed), and walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). To love chesed is to be aligned with the nature of the King.

This is why Yeshua places mercy here in the Beatitudes. The poor in spirit have come empty before God. Those who mourn have allowed their hearts to feel what is broken. The meek have surrendered their strength. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness now long for the world to be made right. And now the merciful appear — those who have been so marked by the mercy of God that they become vessels of that mercy to others.

The Kingdom does not form people who merely know they have been forgiven. It forms people who become forgiving. Mercy is not a feeling you carry — it is a force you release, and it shapes the world it touches.  When Yeshua says “they shall obtain mercy,” He is not describing a transaction but covenant reciprocity. The stream that reached them now flows through them. The well does not run dry when poured out — it reveals its source.  Ashrei (Blessed) are the merciful, because they are living in the flow of what they have already received — vessels of rachamim and chesed, carrying the womb-tenderness and covenant faithfulness of God into places starving for His love.

You are a recipient of the rachamim of the Most High — not because you earned it, but because He is rachum v’chanun, and His womb-love has been upon you from before you drew your first breath. That mercy was never given as a private possession. It was deposited in you as a living force, meant to flow. You are now commissioned to carry chesed into a world starving for covenant love — not sentiment, not weakness, but fierce, loyal, costly tenderness that looks like God. Go and be what you have already received. Ashrei are the merciful, because they carry the heart of the King.
With much agape love,    George Baltimore: <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;

Ken here,   I have been deeply considering the words of Jesus this last week concerning what Yeshua meant by what He said about the “Fruit of the Spirit”  Gal. 5:22, “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love,  joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].  And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires, Rom.8:13.   If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]”  So our Lord Jesus, gives us a big key here to know if we are His or if someone else is His.  

Matthew 7:16, “You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles”  Matthew 7:20, “Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.”  And this is a two way street as we consider what is on our tree?  1 John 2:15-17, “Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.”  There is only freedom from this world, not in this world.

These were the 3 demonic tests that Adam & Eve went through and failed, Yeshua/Jesus went through them and gained victory, and they come to us every day in one way or another.  We have been given the wonderful opportunity of living for eternity in the Family of our Creator God or we can use our time on earth in trying to build our own little kingdom as did lucifer and become like him.  There is no middle ground, I wasted years trying to find it.  Our Lord is coming for a perfected Church that is a perfect match for HIM.  A Church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. Our Lord Jesus/Yeshua has given us all of the tools that we need to secure our victory over our Carnal Adamic Selfish (what about me) Sin nature, if we will find them and learn to use them we can also have his victory.  It is not an impossibility, But it is a daily choice of what we feed.  What we don’t feed will ultimately die.

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD, MASTER & SAVIOR.
All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are Eternal Members. 

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