We need to be forgiven:
to be forgiven in this time when fish are dying in our rivers; in this time of poison gas dumped on the ocean floor and in the less and less breathable air of our cities, of children starving; being burned to death in wars which stumble on; being attacked by rats in their cribs...
we need to be forgiven in this grey atmosphere which clogs the lungs to that we cannot breathe, and breathless, spiritless, can no longer discern what is write and what is wrong, what is our right hand and what is our left, what is justice and what is tyranny, what is life and what is death. I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are a stiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw?
But then I remember Jonah accusing God of overlenience, of selfishness, mercy and compassion.
We desperately need the foolishness of God.
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Well as Greg Laurie says, not forgiving someone is like drinking rat poison and expecting the rat to die....
I was referring more to the forgiveness of God, but yes, Dad.
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