Is love what it is- fertile, abundant, life-giving and restoring - just because it gives itself away and is prepared to die? And is that because love says yes to hurt and pain and sacrifice, accepting contradiction and rejection and thus meets opposition and negation with creative, life-promoting affirmation? How could love really die as long as it surrenders itself, accepting sacrifice and death? For by that very acceptance love asserts and fulfills itself, and thus outstrips, with yet more life, the destructiveness to which it yeilds. Likewise, forgiving love can never be defeated: for forgiveness will be met with love or with rejection. If with love, forgivness will have found its goal, if with rejection, that can only evoke from true forgiveness more forgivness still...
- Alan Lewis, Between The Cross and Ressurection
2 comments:
Good Blog Bob, We all have much to be forgiven for, and likewise to forgive.
Goodness, We had a sermon on forgiveness today and the text was Ephesians 4:29-32(From the New Life Version)
Watch your talk! No bad words should be coming from your mouth. Say what is good. Your words should help others grow as Christians. 30 Do not make God's Holy Spirit have sorrow for the way you live. The Holy Spirit has put a mark on you for the day you will be set free. 31 Put out of your life all these things: bad feelings about other people, anger, temper, loud talk, bad talk which hurts other people, and bad feelings which hurt other people. 32 You must be kind to each other. Think of the other person. Forgive other people just as God forgave you because of Christ's death on the cross.
Wow talk about the Lord speaking to me...
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