Worthy Brief - June 30, 2026 The womb of God and the weight of mercy! Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy. Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, There is a word at the center of this Beatitude that Yeshua's disciples would not have heard as a moral virtue -- but as something deeply intimate. When the Hebrew mind spoke of mercy, it reached for rachamim, a word rooted in rechem -- the womb. The hidden place where life is carried, protected, and loved before it can ever respond. So when Scripture declares that God is rachum — merciful -- it is not describing cold pity from a distance. It is revealing the fierce, covenantal compassion of a God who carries His people, remembers His promises, and moves toward them even when they cannot move toward Him. The Greek word Yeshua uses is eleemon -- merciful, compas...