Forgiveness Rises from the Dead
We may not feel like Easter is the right time for such questions, but if you think about it, it is the perfect time.
If someone you love were kidnapped and you were told that you might get them back if you killed 50 children, would you kill them? What would you do if your loved one asked you to kill them?
No? How about 40, 30, would you kill just one child, even if your loved one asked you to? And what if you were the one kidnapped?
So many people are kidnapped in Mexico and so many children are being killed in Palestine. These are hard relevant questions. No judgment.
What if your neighbor faced this situation and decided to kill one child? Where would you hide your children or would you not wait and just kill them without knowing whether they were after one of your children?
The price of life is pretty cheap in many places around the world, stemming from it being cheap in our hearts. What if just blessing someone in your heart could save their life? Would you bless only the innocent, only those who deserved to be blessed and live? Or would you bless the guilty also? What if you refused to bless someone and they were killed and later you found out that they were innocent?
Would we stop judging and just bless everyone to be safe? Or could we see through our blindness and see the value of every life? Could we bless everyone then because now we are willing to forgive those who seem guilty—so that they would live and get a chance to change and start blessing everyone in their hearts?
FORGIVENESS WILL RISE FROM THE DEAD IN OUR HEARTS.
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I hope I never face such choices. Up to now I choose life for everyone!♥️♥️♥️♥️but I was never faced with life or death!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Forgiving is great.But forgiving comes with the caveat of needing to ask to be forgiven. If there is a principal in Christianity of which I believe is key---those who ask for forgiveness can receive it. While we often talk about the nobility of forgiving as a standalone, if God, if you believe in him, needs an apology in the form of a confession, do you really see meager humans handing out forgiveness to those who have mistreated them without observing some meritorious attempt to apology for the hurt caused.
And in us humans,we might error and not forgive as the Christian god might, but if we do,then I agree,we can release much of the weight that damages our relationships with others.