Blessed are the merciful (Part 3)
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Forgiving Others
C H Spurgeon used to say, ‘Forgive and forget. When you bury a mad dog, don’t leave his tail above the ground.’
Multi-Faceted Mercy
C H Spurgeon used to say, ‘My blind eye is the best eye I have, and my deaf ear is the best ear I have.’
The nineteenth-century preacher Rowland Hill once said, ‘I would not give anything for that man’s religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.’
Covenant in Kind
A W Pink points out, the Beatitude would then read ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain justice.’
J C Ryle is perfectly right in saying that ‘to talk of merit or claim to God’s favour is absurd and preposterous’
One prosperous businessman, asked how he could afford to give so much to Christian service, replied: ‘I shovel it out, and God shovels it back—and God uses a bigger shovel!’
the nineteenth-century writer and philanthropist Hannah More testified, ‘A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves us the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirits.’