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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

James 2:8-13

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (ESV)

by Emily Graffius

Mercy triumphs over judgment! Be quick to show mercy and slow to show judgment. Ask God to help you show mercy to those around you, just as he shows mercy to you.

Be careful not to be prideful in keeping one commandment or law, such as the Sabbath, while you’re breaking other commandments. You are still sinning before God. If you’re prideful in keeping the Sabbath, then you’re sinning. Sin can sneak up on us very quickly sometimes. Ask God to show you any sins you’re unaware of so you can confess and turn from those ways.



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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2010, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.