MERCY

We approached God as  tax collectors and received mercy. The question we need to ask is after receiving God’s mercy, did we become a Pharisee with the confident of our own righteousness? Did we receive mercy only to keep it to our self or do we extend mercy to others? 
                                                                LUKE 18:9-13 (NIV)

9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'