“Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases”
God’s love compels him to work on behalf of his creation. The jewel of that creation is men and women, created in his image. When his creation falls and suffers, his love compels him to look upon us with sympathy and sorrow and to act on our behalf.
Thus, he has sought to offer the One Sacrifice, Jesus, to bear the sins of the world. For many generations, even before the first coming (Advent) of Jesus, his people knew that one would come that could and would forgive our sins.
Frederick Buechner writes about forgiveness in a fashion similar to this: To forgive someone is to say, in effect, “you have done something wrong and by all rights I should write you off. My pride and principles demand it. However, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.” To accept forgiveness means that you admit that you did this unspeakable thing. Both parties must swallow the same thing: pride.
Forgiveness has both a human and a divine aspect. Maybe, then, the pride that keeps us from offering forgiveness is the same pride that keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
He forgives your sins.
Will you accept his forgiveness by swallowing your pride and admitting that you have done wrong? I am praying that you will.
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Date: Jan. 30th, 2005 01:56 pm (UTC)wonder what it said...
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Date: Jan. 30th, 2005 05:20 pm (UTC)Psalm 103:3
“Who forgives all your sins,
who heals all your diseases”
God’s love compels him to work on behalf of his creation. The jewel of that creation is men and women, created in his image. When his creation falls and suffers, his love compels him to look upon us with sympathy and sorrow and to act on our behalf.
Thus, he has sought to offer the One Sacrifice, Jesus, to bear the sins of the world. For many generations, even before the first coming (Advent) of Jesus, his people knew that one would come that could and would forgive our sins.
Frederick Buechner writes about forgiveness in a fashion similar to this: To forgive someone is to say, in effect, “you have done something wrong and by all rights I should write you off. My pride and principles demand it. However, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.” To accept forgiveness means that you admit that you did this unspeakable thing. Both parties must swallow the same thing: pride.
Forgiveness has both a human and a divine aspect. Maybe, then, the pride that keeps us from offering forgiveness is the same pride that keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
He forgives your sins.
Will you accept his forgiveness by swallowing your pride and admitting that you have done wrong? I am praying that you will.
Chaplain Benson