Mercy

Friday June 13th, Matthew 9: 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Religion tends to want to “buy off” God. We try to buy off God with our righteousness and with our sacrifice, saying “Look God, Look what I did for you.” The point is seeing what God did for us. God desires mercy, the same key that got us in the door, for others. Look God, Look at our squeaky clean church, no one person believes or behaves inappropriately, look what we did for you. God leads us to the door and points to all those walking by and calls us out into that distant land that is not squeaky clean, but is open to mercy.