In many of the Epistles, the Apostles began with the wonderful phrase: Grace and mercy. 486 If God began writing many of His holy Letters to us in this manner, then we should do also in our own correspondence with others in the body of Christ. In the beginning of the Book of Jude we read, Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. 487 Do we find it easy to wish mercy on others in abundance or are we quick to condemn? One that finds it easy to judge others has lost the perspective that he was shown much mercy from God. For it is by grace and mercy we have been saved by the blood of God s Son. In the Book of Titus it says: Not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.
