A man breaks into your home that you share with your elderly parents, your spouse and your children. He kills your parents, and you forgive him. Then he looks at your spouse and children, without remorse and without repentance, and kills them too. You forgive him. Then he takes your life. What good was your forgiveness? Did you feel bett…
A man breaks into your home that you share with your elderly parents, your spouse and your children. He kills your parents, and you forgive him. Then he looks at your spouse and children, without remorse and without repentance, and kills them too. You forgive him. Then he takes your life. What good was your forgiveness? Did you feel better about yourself while he was killing the rest of your family? Would God say to you, thank you for letting your family be slaughtered? Or would he say, why didn't you end the threat?
We are in the middle of a violent, fatal break-in and you are talking about forgiveness before anyone has taken the responsibility for the mayhem and no one has been held accountable. I have no obligation (or need) to forgive those who would destroy all those whom I love, without remorse and without repentance.
A man breaks into your home that you share with your elderly parents, your spouse and your children. He kills your parents, and you forgive him. Then he looks at your spouse and children, without remorse and without repentance, and kills them too. You forgive him. Then he takes your life. What good was your forgiveness? Did you feel better about yourself while he was killing the rest of your family? Would God say to you, thank you for letting your family be slaughtered? Or would he say, why didn't you end the threat?
We are in the middle of a violent, fatal break-in and you are talking about forgiveness before anyone has taken the responsibility for the mayhem and no one has been held accountable. I have no obligation (or need) to forgive those who would destroy all those whom I love, without remorse and without repentance.