When the tables are turned and it’s we who want the mercy, we’re going to be glad – no, not glad, ecstatic! – that God chooses to show mercy on those we think deserve it the least. And that fact frees us to find life in our living.

Do you live your life like you know you received the Holy Spirit? Are you paying attention to the ways you feel the force of the Holy Spirit moving and shaking you, pushing and shoving you? To the ways the Spirit would have you break out of your comfort zone? Are you listening for the voice of God that claims you as a beloved child and then calls you to live into that identity in the world? Are you praying for God to help you figure out where the Spirit would move you?