Thought for today - 09/14/2011

 

THE REALITY OF FORGIVENESS 
"Many find Jesus' teaching on enemy love and forgiveness a stumbling block to faith. Because we find it too difficult to practice, we dismiss it as unrealistic and utopian. We should think again, and we should pray that it is not unrealistic, because this congruence of Jesus -- the consistency between his teaching on forgiveness and his action on the cross -- is really our only hope. It is all that stands between us and the consequences of our monumental frailty. Thank God today that Jesus died as he lived, because with those words, '"Father, forgive...' he forgives us all, and he forgives us still."
     ~Peter Storey, Listening at Golgotha: Jesus' Words from the Cross