Tara Conner has been in the news lately for her misdeeds in New York City. Donald Trump was expected to fire her, but actually did what Jesus would have done. He gave her a second chance. I am reminded of the story in John the eight chapter:2Early in the morning Jesus went back to the temple area. All the people came to Jesus. Jesus sat and taught the people. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought a woman there. The woman had been caught doing the sin of adultery. These Jews forced the woman to stand before the people. 4They said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught having sex with a man that is not her husband. 5The law of Moses commands that we kill with rocks every woman that does this. What do you say we should do?” 6The Jews were using this question to trick Jesus. They wanted to catch Jesus saying something wrong. Then they could have a charge against him. But Jesus kneeled down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7The Jewish leaders continued to ask Jesus their question. So Jesus stood up and said, “Is there any person here that has never sinned? That person without sin can throw the first rock at this woman.” 8Then Jesus knelt down again and wrote on the ground. 9The people that heard Jesus began to leave one by one. The older men left first, and then the others. Jesus was left there alone with the woman. She was standing before him. 10Jesus looked up again and asked her, “Woman, all of those people are gone. None of them judged you guilty?” 11The woman answered, “None of them judged me, sir.”
Then Jesus said, “So I also don’t judge you. You can go now, but don’t sin again.”
(Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: EASY-TO-READ VERSION © 2001 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. and used by permission.)
Trump is not Jesus, but he appears to have more compassion than many in the media do. I was watching Fox News this morning and the consensus of callers and staff seemed to be that she should have been fired. I remember a sermon that Randal Ross preached several years ago where he compared the MSM to pharisees. Many would rather see a good stoning than an act of mercy and forgiveness (picture above {probably "photoshopped"}). I don't know where Donald Trump is spritually, but I think in this case he is following what Paul taught in Romans 2: 14
"for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts."
Jesus said, MT 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.'* For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, *to repentance." I have always felt that mercy trumped sacrifice because of this. Now we can say puningly Trump's mercy has trumped sacrifice. So for today, Trump is an example for us in showing mercy.
