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Martin Luther King Jr. said: “I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what…
Mercy
King · Luke 10
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Two Things We Do Not Know
F.B. Meyer (via Stephen Brown)
F.B. Meyer observed that when we see a brother or sister in sin, “there are two things we do not know: how hard they tried not to sin, and the power of the forces that assailed them.” We also do not know what we would have done in the same storm. The observation slows the rush to a verdict.
How you’d preach it
Softens harsh judgment of others’ failures. We rarely know the full pressure or the full resistance.
- Mercy
- Humility
Meyer · Brown