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'Mercy' is a difficult word to define. For the past several weeks we showed you videos of children in our Mercy Networks defining 'mercy' through works of art.
We saw kids use their creativity to define mercy as helping an elderly person cross the street, or serving someone sick in bed, or giving food to a beggar. All of these are great examples of mercy through the eyes of children around the world.
But when we saw Ana Paulina's drawing, we were surprised by the simplicity and profundity of her definition.
Ana Paulina's picture of mercy is God coming down to die on the cross for her sins.
This is really the ultimate picture of mercy.
The bible says that Jesus, "...being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!" (Philippians 2:6-8)
What an amazing picture of mercy that is! God made himself one of us and died a humiliating death to rescue us from sin and death forever! And that's why we do what we do.
Children's Hunger Fund provides Food Paks and other aid to local churches in impoverished regions around the world. We do this so that churches may deliver hope to hungry families and tell them the good news of God's great mercy.
To find out more and to help deliver hope, visit ChildrensHungerFund.org.