Hard Forgiveness
Bulletproof, by Destiny Blue Propers: The Seventh Sunday After Epiphany , AD 2025 C Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for You know his sins are great. Grace mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. “Love your enemies,” Jesus said. “Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you.” And we all stared back in uncomfortable silence. Worshipping Jesus is in some sense the easy part. Worship comes naturally to human beings; we have no irreligious iteration of our species. Everyone bows the knee to something. The question isn’t whether one believes in God; it’s, which gods are we already reverencing? No, the difficult part is trusting Christ by doing what He says. “It is simply absurd,” wrote the Rev’d George MacDonald of our Lord Jesus Christ, “to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.” Acknowledging Jesus as Lord is relatively painless, here ...
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