As the body bags roll out in spiking Covid-19 cases and families reel under financial pressure through income loss amid a vaccine mandate rollout, Senior Pastor Kelron Harry of the Arnos Vale Church of the Nazarene is appealing to public and private sector authorities and political and religious leaders to show mercy.
“In God’s Kingdom, He says we must love mercy. And I’m calling on all persons in authority across our nation, whether it be business owners, church leaders, politicians, all the leadership, to apply mercy. Apply mercy. Know that persons are facing difficult times. Apply mercy.
“Apply mercy to those who might be working for you. Apply mercy to those who are in some way connected to you. Apply mercy to those who might owe you. Apply mercy to those who are in a position that they might be dependent on you. Apply mercy, love mercy and walk humbly,” the Church of the Nazarene’s senior pastor said.
Pastor Harry said people must love mercy as it is so important in every nation. He said mercy seems to be something applied when one is in a position of advantage over the other “and you have to make a decision if you’re going to ease up or go hard – squeeze.”
Pastor Harry said people have to decide whether they would stand for justice or continue to hide.
“Are we living in a world or in a nation where there is more than one justice system? Can we declare firmly that justice is applied fairly to everyone? We need to acknowledge where we are. If it is so, then great,” he said.
Pastor Harry underscored the importance of humility which is of critical importance to the exercise of mercy especially at this time of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact.
He noted that God said he adds grace to the humble but he resents or resists the proud.
“Humility is when you are in that spot and you now begin to acknowledge ‘God, I can’t do this. I know I’m educated but this is beyond me. God I know I’m strong but I ain’t strong enough. God, yes, we want to stand in pride and let everyone know we can handle this, we can manage this.’ But humility says we must trust in God above any ability of ourselves or any other human being or any other thing. So God says our faith may see us through,” he said.
Pastor Harry further stated: “Faith in self, faith in the things of this world, faith in material possessions, faith in all those things will never help us. They may help us for a time but for that only. Faith in God will see us through.
St Vincent and the Grenadines is a nation that was founded on the principles of the Bible that shows that we understand that the dignity of each human being comes from the fact that we were created in the image and likeness of God our Creator.”
Pastor Harry said that now more than ever people need to acknowledge the Creator above any other. “Our faith will see us through,” he reiterated.
