Having examined David's experience with grace in the previous blog, I looked at my own life. Was God simply showing mercy to me in a vacuum, or did he see something in my own life. We try to find a cause and effect to make sense out of life's events. When God brought Svetlana into my life, that was the greatest act of kindness that iatribute to outside of eternal life. I did not deserve such a good wife. Yet I wonder even in this age of grace, if God had mercy on me in spite of my sin. I am trying to make a coonection from one practice that I fulfilled to the best of my knowledge. I made it a point to forgive others. I have also made it a practice to ask forgiveness of others. What I find strange is how little people actually go to someone and admit how they hurt someone and ask forgiveness. We tend to ignore it and move on. I suppose over time the pain becomes less, but I often hear people bring up a hurt of the past. They had buried it and it seems to eat away at their soul. Getting back on the intent of this subject, is there a cause and effect in which God sees our mercy to others and then grants more mercy to us based on our mercy to others? A tough case to prove, but I wonder.
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