It's interesting to think about these ideas! What makes us want revenge on that person who cut us off in traffic? Why do we feel that we have the authority to dictate what should happen to people we think broke the law? Have you ever appreciated justice when someone sped by you on the highway to see them pulled over by an officer only a couple miles down the road? Why do we want to see reality television where people are hurt physically, emotionally or mentally? We want to see them kicked off the island or voted out by not receiving a rose!
Have you thought about how easy God forgives? All you do is ask and we expect and believe that it is simply removed form his sight! How does he do that? Some us feel that we don't deserve forgiveness so we don't even ask. Yet, he stands ready and willing to do just that at any moment we choose! How in the world can that even take place with so much hatred and sin, where we can exercise that? It's simple, Jesus did it. The example is there. It's even more simple to understand by simply removing the emotion from it! What did I just say? Remove emotion from our lives? Emotion is what separates us from plants and other living things. Yes, that is true, but God is not human yet we are made in his image and yet God has emotions. The bible talks about his love, compassion, anger, judgement and so on? How does God forgive us when He has so many emotions toward us, His creation? I'm not God nor am I perfect. The only thing that could make sense of how He could love us unconditionally is by removing the emotion from the sin that was committed against us so that we might be able to forgive like Jesus did on the cross.
As Jesus stated, now go and sin no more!
