Digging Deeper James 2:12-13 with Commentary

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The whole idea of focusing on a short passage of Scripture each week is to allow time for us to dig deeper. Many of us, myself included, skim along the surface of the Word like a stone skipping on the water, hesitating just long enough to get wet but not coming to rest in that spot. Do you savor the Word? Do you mull it over, meditating on its meaning and truth? Do you embrace it and allow it to dwell in you richly? I am speaking to myself first. I am, far too often, the skipping stone, but I want to dig deeper.

James 2:12-13
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.

Commentary:
"A person who shows no mercy and compassion for people in need demonstrates that he has never responded to the great mercy of God and, as an unredeemed person, will receive only strict, unrelieved judgment in eternal hell (cf. Matt. 5:7). Mercy triumphs over judgment. The person whose life is characterized by mercy is ready for the day of judgment, and will escape all the charges that strict justice might bring against him because, by showing mercy to others, he gives genuine evidence of having received God's mercy." The MacArthur Bible Commentary by John MacArthur pg. 1887.

Blessings,
Diane

Diane Hunt is the Director of Addiction Recovery and Development at America's KESWICK. In addition to her Keswick responsibilities which keep her busy, she loves to read, write and teach, travel and laugh with her grandchildren. Diane has been married to her husband John over 26 years. She has 2 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 step-children, and 7 step-grandchildren.