Mercy Triumphs

Meditation Thought: “Mercy triumphs over judgment.” (James 2:13)

“Mercy triumphs over judgment.” To triumph is to overcome completely, to be proved superior to that which did not triumph. Our God, being a merciful God – to the point of sacrificing Himself for us – is the crucial difference between Him and any other “gods” perceived by man.

We are mad in His image, and when true to that image, then we are merciful also.

Only when we come to trust God’s Word and Spirit enough to test His teaching as actual experiments in the course of our lives do we demonstrate the truth of His principles. And we cannot judge the interim results as the final outcome of the experiment without reaching false conclusions.

This is especially true in the principle of mercy triumphing over judgment. The results of judgment are perceived by the mind, and may or may not set in motion further thoughts which set in motion further deeds affecting the future.

But the results of mercy affect the heart – the emotions, the spirit – and these too affect the mind, but they have such power that they do affect the future.

To be judged – even fairly, we accept as our “due”, and are satisfied that the situation has come to a conclusion.

But to receive mercy – an undeserved, unearned pardon – a release from even the need for judgment – sets us free without even the stress of the proving of our case.

We are so accustomed to needing to justify ourselves to the world, that the unexpected removal of the need for justification sets us off balance – and the strangeness of our position causes us to think actively about the whole situation from a new perspective: this is the reason that mercy triumphs over judgment. It causes new awareness of love – and any new awareness of love is also leading to an awareness of Him who is Love: the greater the awareness of Him Who is Love, the greater the prospects of “miracles” – of healing actions. And this is the demonstration of the triumph of mercy over judgment.

Imprisoned in the dark and gloom
of the world of your cocoon
You did not know outside that space
Light and color,
Sound and purest air
Awaited for you to recognize
You need not spend forever
Where you were.

Time and the gentle touch
of your Creator’s sign
Reveal to you the purpose of your birth:
Not to stay in darkness,
confined in little space –
But to grow, develop wings,
and using the efforts of your faith
To burst out into the Kingdom –
To explore its beauty in an ecstasy
Of soaring, seeking, discovering
That purpose for which you were born –
Though in darkness you knew not why
You struggled, sought,
The perseverance against the confines of your tomb
Conquered the seemingly impenetrable mass
And glorious light of day
Greet you with welcome;
At last you emerge into your proper home.