| Our imaginations have a hard time grasping the concept of God's continual forgiveness. Yes we have heard it preached, taught and its even been modeled to us by our parents as we grew. Yet, we don't fully understand it. It can't be that we mess up again and again and keep being forgiven. It doesn't seem to jive with the way the world runs. The rules of our universe seem to be "you get what you deserve" and "you reap what you sow". Of course there is truth contained within these sayings, truth that we have all experienced. However, the ultimate truth almost seems to contradict the application of these saying...the truth that God forgives us for what we have done, and even though we deserve to pay the full consequence of our actions, he has taken it for us. We are tempted to think that there is a limit to how many times we can mess up before we lose this gift...and yet there he remains, offering us forgiveness again and again. Maybe we aren't supposed to understand it as much as accept it. Labels: forgiveness, grace |
