Subject: Can we not ask God to forgive another? |
Bible Note: Dear Dr. Aixen, You wrote, "I hate to say it this way, but I think you are perfectly correct." Is it really that painful to agree with me? ;-) Your post made me think of another passage: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:7-8) In addition, I thought about Jonah. He wanted God to show less mercy to Nineveh than God had shown Israel! Some time ago I realized that every time I got angry at the world, at how foolish they are, at how they shake their fist at God, or even commit sin in defiant ways... every time I would say to the Lord, "Why don't you do something, Lord?" In essence, I was being like Jonah. I was asking that God would be less merciful with others than He has been with me! Thus, I found a lack of forgiveness in my heart that I had to give up to the Lord. It is interesting to realize that vengeance is not a sin. If it were, God wouldn't do it! What is a sin is for a man to do it... vengeance belongs to the Lord. More than that we are commanded not to do it... We simply couldn't do it in holiness! In Him, Doc |