Life-Changing Thoughts on Mercy Works

par Zacharias T. Fomum

Mercy is the capacity to show love to someone who deserves hate; to pardon someone who deserves punishment. So begins this compilation of more than a hundred short thoughts by Zacharias Tanee Fomum, each standing on its own page and each drawn from one of his many books. Together they trace a single golden thread: the unlimited mercy of God, and the mercy God asks of His children. The reader is led from the God who pardons—restoring Peter, forgiving the woman caught in adultery—to the mercy we must show one another, through the parable of the unforgiving servant and the school of mercy in which we learn to forgive, pray for and bless those who have wronged us. Four things are carefully distinguished: mercy, kindness, compassion and generosity. Inside are the Good Samaritan and the feeding of the five thousand; Zacchaeus giving back half his wealth; George Mueller’s orphanages and Mother Teresa’s two dresses; the baby found in a Kampala gutter; and the care of orphans, illegitimate children, street girls, and the distressed, the debtors, the discontented . Its warning is unflinching— what we withhold from a brother in need, we withhold from Christ . Its invitation is warm: become a merciful people. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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