In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.

Matthew chapter 7, verse 12.

Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Reflecting God's mercy was written in red by Wyn Collier.

Matthew chapter 7, verse 7 to 12.

Ask and it will be given to you.

Seek and you will find.

Knock, and the door will be open to you.

For everyone who asks, receives.

The one who seeks, finds,, and the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake.

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.

For this sums up the law and the prophets.

Reflecting God's mercy.

A Finnish soldier in the three-month winter war with Russia lay wounded on the battlefield.

A Russian soldier walked his way, pointing his rifle. The

Finn was certain he'd met his end. However, the Russian handed him a medic kit, then kept

moving. Remarkably, the Finn later found himself in a similar situation.

Only the roles were reversed.

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