Did you know that what you don’t give to others is just as important as what you do give to them?  It’s the same as what God doesn’t give to us.  God doesn’t give us what we do deserve but, instead, He gives us His grace and His mercy, which we don’t deserve.  We deserve eternal punishment…eternal separation from Him in Hell.  But, in His mercy, He doesn’t punish us…and by His grace, through faith in His Son, Jesus, He forgives us and gives us eternal life instead.  Now…we need to do the same to one another…to be gracious and merciful.

Ephesians 2:4-7

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved ), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Luke 6:36

“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

“Not how much we give, but how much we do not give, is the test of our Christianity.” ~ Oswald Chambers

The Lord bless you and keep you…

Pastor Dave