Carl Bart once said of Hitler that, were he to meet him, the verse he would quote would be, "For yet, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."We repent not in order that we may be forgiven, but because we are already forgiven. Forgiveness does not hinge on our return, like the prodigal, but is given to us before we even alter our lifestyle.
There was a prayer strapped to the dead body of a woman who died in a gulag during the Russian holocaust that read, "Don't let these me be condemned for what they did. Instead let the good fruits that our lives have borne pay their way into Paradise."
can we comprehend that kind of forgiveness?
Pray with your wanderings...
All have sinned and missed the mark, the center...
Behold the Lamb, who takes away sin...
Come to me and I will give you rest...
Add my yoke to yours, two yokes, not 0 burden, but a heckavah lot easier...
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