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Does it feel as though your life is full of unnecessary clutter? If so, you’re not alone. While you can find plenty of good advice about how to declutter your closet and your calendar, the best way to live a life focused on the essentials is to hear good news. Because of Jesus, we know where we are going. And once we know where we’re going, we’ll know what we need. This week we see that mercy is essential to our relationship with God and therefore essential to our relationship with our neighbor. Rather than our neighbor being a pawn in our game to justify ourselves before God, God wants us to recognize that his mercy is all we need to be righteous before him. In the process, he transforms our neighbor in need into an opportunity for us to show the same mercy.