God's Holiness is Merciful
and God's mercy is holy
You can approach God’s holiness in your sin because God’s holiness moves towards you first. Any suggestion that God can’t look upon you or is far from you or doesn’t want to be with you in your sin: what do we see in Christ?
In him the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. And Christ moves toward- not away- from sinners.
You can become more holy by becoming more merciful: with yourself and others.
Retribution, payback, punishment, revenge: these are unholy things. Love doesn’t work via retribution and punishment. Love doesn’t work via fear: fear has to do with punishment and perfect love casts that bad news out, beloved.
God’s mercy is holy.
God’s holiness is merciful.
Be like God today: be wholly merciful.
