Amazing! I was just talking with a very close friend about forgiveness and God’s grace. It is truly amazing! Here we are enemies of God sinning and rejecting God’s love for us, yet he continues to give grace and forgiveness. No matter what we do. He is our father and we are his children.
Jesus was the same way. Even as he was dying on the cross, he forgave those who were crucifying him. He was asking for God’s mercy to be on them. Christ gave up his rights to be angry or to demand justice. Now why did he do that? Was it because he was perfect? Or maybe because he was the son of God?
I wonder if he might have done it, because he gave up his “rights” on this earth as if he never had them. He gave up his right to be treated like the son of God. He gave up his right to be “innocent until proven guilty” (as we would say in the States). But maybe he didn’t claim those rights, because they weren’t his while he was on this earth.
Think about it. Take a look at some of the things Jesus said,
“You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world” (John 8:23, ESV).
“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world” (John 17:16, ESV).
Maybe Jesus gave up his rights, because he wasn’t of this world and they weren’t his rights to claim. Maybe his rights were in a different world.
So what about my rights? What about when someone offends me? Will I give up my rights in order to follow Christ? Will I give up those rights because I am no longer a resident of Earth, but of Heaven?
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