“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.”  These are Jesus Christ’s word to us, as we read in Luke 6:27-38 today.

In truth, what our world needs much more of is mercy.  Jesus points out that God “is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.”  God makes the sun to rise on both good and evil, and sends rain on the just and unjust.  He sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem us from sin while we were yet enemies.  God, the Creator of all things, is kind to those who hate Him.  We are called t...