This bit is hodgepodge at its finest. A running dialogue if you will....
What does mercy look like when it's given to those who don't know they're in desperate need of it. If Christ died for me, did I as a young child know I needed it? No, but I know it now even if I had never been told it would save me. Something deep within me knows this world is not put to rights and I enmeshed in that. Putting me back to rights is happening right now and mercy given to the naive is doing that.
If you didn't know you needed mercy and you received it, can you fully embrace what you've been given? Or should that person offer up forgiveness without informing you? I would think that if you forgive someone (are merciful), you should not inform them if they do not know what they have done. I imagine that being a little awkward. Although, if I parked in someone's spot at work and heard about it from someone else and the person in whose parking spot I placed my car has not mentioned anything, just then I've been given mercy that I didn't know I needed and I am very grateful. Does that bode the same if it's a person I don't like? I say yes.
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