Do you show mercy and forgiveness? Deuteronomy 23-25

Deuteronomy 24:21-22 (NASBStr)

“When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Being shown mercy and showing mercy is an act of Godliness.   God shows us mercy when we don't deserve it and shouldn't expect it.   We tend to think of ourselves as deserving God's grace and mercy, but that is not the case.  If we received what we deserved we would all be crushed.    In the above passage we see God's instruction to the nation of Israel in regard to how much they gleaned in their fields.   This is a simple and basic day-to-day function of the nation.   Going out into the field to glean the product is what farmers do.   It would be natural to want to get every last piece of grain into the barns.   Yet, God tells them not to glean to the utmost.   They are to assure that something is purposefully left for the poor and orphan and alien in the land, who have nothing.   The reason He wants them to practice such mercy is because they were at one time aliens in the land of Egypt.   They were once slaves.   God is reminding them that the mercy shown to them during their time of trouble (in Egypt) was now to be shown to others.  There is nothing so unrighteous as someone who has been shown mercy who won't show mercy.   When we don't show grace and forgiveness despite the fact that God forgave us we fail to see the real meaning of grace and mercy in our lives.   God is showing us mercy each day we draw breath.  We should breath in His mercy and breath it out to those around us.