Matthew 5:7 “How blessed are those who show mercy! for they will be shown mercy.
Grace looks down upon sin as a whole.
Mercy looks upon the miserable consequences of sin.
A man’s concern about the misery of men and women leads to an anxiety to relieve it.
He didn’t just see a hurt person and have compassion and pity.
He stopped and did something about it.
Abba Himself sent His Son to us in our miserable state.
He looked down upon man in his pitiful condition as the result of sin, and had pity upon him.
The grace that is there in regard to sin in general now becomes mercy in particular as God looks at the consequences of sin.
This is not, “if I am merciful towards others, God will be merciful towards me.”
He is merciful towards me SO I am to be merciful towards others.
"This beatitude follows all the others. I am poor in spirit and realize that I have no righteousness. I realize that face-to-face with God and His righteousness I am utterly helpless. I can do nothing. Not only that, I mourn because of the sin that is within me. I have come to see, as the result of the operation of the Holy Spirit, the blackness of my own heart. I know what it is to cry out, "Oh Wretched Man that I am! Who shall deliver me?" and the desire to be rid of this vileness that is within me. Not only that, I am meek, which means that now that I have experienced a true view of myself, nobody else can hurt me, nobody else can insult me, nobody can ever say anything too bad about me."
I've seen myself as something truly hateful and it is because of this that I hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Does it not follow inevitably that, if I have seen and experienced all that, my attitude towards everybody else must be completely and entirely changed?
If all that is true of me, I no longer see men as I used to see them.
I see them now with the eye of a son.
I see them as dupes and victims and slaves of sin and Satan and of the way of the world.
I feel sorry for them.
This is how Jesus/Yeshua saw me when He was on the cross.
A son has great sorrow for those trapped in the world.