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Discipleship Focus: Forgiveness
- Forgiveness: Forgiveness is when our sins are absolved by God. We do not deserve this forgiveness, but God grants it to us anyway. We cannot earn forgiveness, but God gives it to us anyway. As we are forgiven by God, He also asks us to forgive others. In fact, Jesus Himself teaches us to pray for our forgiveness in the Lord’s Prayer when He says, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
I cannot help but to read this chapter and think about
forgiveness. For me, there is such a
profound depth of forgiveness when Paul says: just as sin came into the world
through the trespass of one man, so through one man God’s grace came into the
world. We’re all sinful. It was a part of Adam; it’s a part of
us. God didn’t have to save us.
But God did. God sent His
Son to deal with our problem. God
forgave us so that we could be in relationship with Him. We deserve nothing; He gives us
everything. We should be condemned; in
Him we find life.
That’s forgiveness. That’s
grace, love, and mercy. That’s the God
that I serve.
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