{"id":123,"date":"2011-01-04T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:35:00","slug":"to-love-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"To Love Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy is a quality that many of us say we lack. However, it must be one of our main qualities as a coheir with Christ.\u00a0 In Micah 6:8 Our Lord says \u201c<em>He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?<strong> To act justly<\/strong> and<strong> to love mercy <\/strong>and<strong> to walk humbly <\/strong>with your God<\/em>.\u201d What does He mean \u201cto love mercy?\u201d Mercy walks hand-in-hand with love. Is it mercy that triggers our compassion? Is it mercy that moves us to action? The fact that you are breathing and reading this message is because of God\u2019s great mercy. (Titus 3:5) I don\u2019t believe our Heavenly Father cares about our status in Man\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe He hears or sees us when we are disobedient.\u00a0 Sin can not present itself in any form to our Holy God. But, when we take on the righteousness of Christ, when we walk in the power of His precious blood, when we truly understand that we are saved by His amazing grace \u2013 we become more like Him and His virtue to be merciful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy is a quality that many of us say we lack. However, it must be one of our main qualities as a coheir with Christ.\u00a0 In Micah 6:8 Our Lord says \u201cHe has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-mercy-grace-love-micah-68"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-1Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}