Blessed Are the Merciful - Beautiful Eulogy, Art Azurdia

Are you merciful?

Why?

Because Jesus healed the sick

Because Jesus fed the multitudes

Because Jesus gave legs to the crippled

Because Jesus granted sight to the blind

Because Jesus opened the ears of the deaf

Because Jesus found prostitutes and tax collectors and drew them into the

sphere of His love

Because Jesus touched the untouchable

And loved the unlovable

And forgave the unforgivable

And welcomed the undesirable

Because Jesus even now saves the otherwise unsavable, why?!

Because they deserve it?!

When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared

He saved us NOT because of works done in righteousness

NOT because we met Him halfway

NOT because we took the proper steps forward

And in good faith have elevated ourselves to the place of the deserving poor

But according to His mercy!

We are here because Jesus Christ didn’t say with cold indifference

«Give them what they deserve, they brought it on themselves!»

Jesus Christ IS the Mercy of God!

And seeing us in our misery and need

He doesn’t just feel for us

He takes the necessary action to relieve our distress

He leaves the eternal glory of heaven and the perfect fellowship of the Trinity

He condescends to us

Lives among us

Suffers like us

Dies for us!

Do you understand this?!

Have YOU experienced this?!

How then is it possible to experience it and not display it?!

It isn’t possible!

You haven’t experienced it if you don’t display it!

The evidence of God’s mercy in your life isn’t determined by how much theology

you know

By how many books you read

But by your active goodness to people in misery and in need!

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy