The darkness of judgement or the joy of mercy?

Morning: Psalm 119:97-120; Genesis 27:1-29; Romans 12:1-8 
Evening: Psalm 81, 82; John 8:12-20

Mercy and Compassion run through the story of Jesus; they are his Way. He refuses to judge a woman accused of adultery.  Now Jesus makes it a general rule: “I pass judgement on no-one.” Judgement deepens the darkness.  But Jesus, the merciful one, calls himself ‘the light of the cosmos’.  Interestingly, Muslims acknowledge God (Allah) as ‘the most compassionate, the most merciful,’ (‘Bismillah’) and Mohammed as the ‘mercy of the worlds’.  Paul adds to the wisdom of mercy, saying that those who ‘engage in acts of mercy’ should do so ‘in joyousness.’  Mercy!