I'm always looking for good mercy verses.
For those of you that don't know, I changed my name to Mercy when I joined SAG because there were too many other Tracy Edwards's on IMDB, and I had just been in the play The Crucible where my name was Mercy Lewis, and people called me Mercy sometimes at rehearsal, and I sort of liked it.
I also feel like anything good that has happened or is going to happen to me in the acting world is going to be because of God's mercy because this industry is too crazy and I am too clueless.
So anyway, I found this good verse today in Luke. It's after Mary found out she was going to be the mother of Jesus and when she went to her relative Elizabeth's house and sang a song of praise for how God had blessed her.
In Luke 1:50, she sings, "And his mercy is for those who fear him, from generation to generation."
Mary feared the Lord, and I think part of the way she feared him was just by believing in her blessing. Elizabeth said to her in verse 45, "And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."
The main way I want to fear the Lord is by believing in his word and his promises and that he is with me and fighting for me in my pursuits.
I've been working hard at pursuing acting, especially recently, and Deuteronomy 28:8a says, "The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake ['if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God' - v.1]." It also says in verse 12a, "The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands."
I know God is with me and blessing me in my work as I fear and obey him, but I also know it is not by my work that I have hope but only by his mercy.
