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When you face a difficult problem in your life, often the problem is all you can see. Sometimes your problem is a small inconvenience, which threatens to mess up your day. And sometimes your problem is a huge and terrible obstacle, which threatens to destroy your happiness or even your life. Your problems can make you feel hopeless.
When Maycol showed us his drawing of 'mercy', we knew he was on the right track.
Maycol drew a busy highway full of fast moving cars. On one side of the road stands a helpless grandmother with a cane, unable to cross the highway on her own. Imagine her feeling of hopelessness as she anxiously tries to cross. She can't move very fast, and the drivers of the cars don't want to stop. If she crosses, her life is in danger.
But suddenly, out of nowhere, a friendly hand waves the traffic to a stop, takes her arm and gently helps her cross the road. What was now an impassible obstacle is now a safe path home because someone came to her aid.
Mercy is one of the ways we can demonstrate the reality of the gospel. In the Bible, Jesus said, "...let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." That means that when we do good things to others, when we show mercy to them just like the mercy God first showed to us, we give them the opportunity to experience God's great love.
So whether you help someone get home safely, or give her food, shelter, or clothing, remember that you are shining the light of God's mercy to those you serve.
Children's Hunger Fund provides Food Paks and other aid to local churches in impoverished regions around the world. We do this so that they may show God's mercy and deliver hope to hungry families.
To find out more and to help deliver hope, visit ChildrensHungerFund.org.